D Wiki
eris
jvburnes at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 13:51:59 PDT 2009
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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