>
> I like using a wiki, so that tips get corrected and updated by whoever
> happens to notice something that can be improved.
>
> The spam issue is a real problem. I have seen several wikis that have
> been polluted. Perhaps we can require people to login to their
> www.vim.org account before they are able to change something?
>
> We have PHP on the server, thus a PHP based wiki would work.
>
> Scott Johnston is the maintainer of the www.vim.org infrastructure. He
> can help out with someone who wants to setup the wiki.
MediaWiki requires only PHP and MySQL.
This is the same Wiki developed by the Wikipedia folks.
It is easy to setup and supports accounts and authentication.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
PHP ≥ 5.0 is required if running MediaWiki 1.7 or higher
MySQL ≥ 4.0 (MySQL 4.0.23 or higher is suggested)
We could probably integrate this with an existing VIM.ORG user database.
If you can get the existing VIM user password in cleartext
then it would be pretty simple to automate an account/password
synchronizer with WikiMedia. If you can't get the cleartext and
if the stored password is in MD5 then it would still probably
be easy to integrate with WikiMedia (I checked -- it uses a
double MD5 hash). If the VIM account passwords are stored in
another hash then it may still yet be possible to sync them
with only a little bit of hacking of the WikiMedia source.
Yours,
Noah
