On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Robert Clipsham wrote: > Brad Roberts wrote: > > This has come up before and never really gone anywhere. I've considered > > setting > > up a new, modern, wiki for us to migrate to. Prowiki has a number of > > limitations that annoy me at least. The biggest is it's history management > > sucks. Looking at what changed over time is either too hard for the likes > > of me > > to figure out, or it's broken, or it just isn't available. > > Excellent idea! +1
One thing I'm particularly interested in gathering is reasons NOT to start fresh on a new site. A lot of +1's is interesting so far as to gather some sort of majority (as if the posters here are actually the majority), but real justifications either way are more valuable to me. > > That said, I've only ever run one wiki package, mediawiki, and it was a pain > > in > > the rear. The debian packaging of it sucks. I dunno if it's any easier to > > manage just off the official releases. > > I've also only run one wiki package too, mediawiki. From my experience it was > good wiki software, but far too bloated. I'd also recommend installing > whatever software you decide on from source rather than using the debian > repositories, from my experience life is a lot easier as you actually know > what's going on with the software :P I have no trouble understanding how software works regardless of who packages it, be it the original distributor or a distribution's maintainer. That's irrelevant. What's relevant is which is easier to maintain in a real running situation over a broad span of time. > > Anyone have a wiki package they've actually run (not just used via the web > > interface) that they can recommend? An obvious one is likely to be Trac via > > dsource. I've considered it, but personally I'm really not fond of trac > > (sorry). > > All I can do is give you > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software to flick through, to > see which packages do what you need, then have a play with some of them. Again, I really desire facts from experience, not a grid of feature comparisons. I've done that reading, several times at various points over the years, it's useless for the questions that are really important to me. > > Would any of you guys volunteer to help migrate content to it if one should > > spring up? I'd be willing to be one of those volunteers, but there's a lot > > of > > content and it really shouldn't be moved over exactly as is. A lot of > > re-organization should be done. > > Volunteered. Excellent. > > My thoughts were to put it at d.puremagic.com to subsume the entire site, > > with > > the exception of /issues which would continue to be the bugzilla > > installation. > > Sounds good to me. If you need somewhere to mirror it I also don't mind > volunteering for this. Offsite backups are likely to be the only real requirement, and I've got that covered already. Thanks, Brad
