On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:29:46 -0700, 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. > > 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. > > 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). > > 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. > > 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. > > Thoughts? > > Later, > Brad
I was planning to do major reorganization of the prowiki content once I was done with classes. I personally hate wikis, but would be willing to contribute since there really isn't a good alternative. I also believe all obsolete content should be removed, there is little reason to preserve a versioned content.