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.

Brad,

I've used MediaWiki, ZWiki and MoinMoin.  Despite its silly name, I think I 
liked MoinMoin the best.  It has an ample user base, is written in Python, has 
reasonable performance, has plugins, doesn't need a database backend and is 
simple to admin.

eris

> 
> 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

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