D wiki

Tobias Pankrath tobias at pankrath.net
Tue Nov 13 11:49:17 PST 2012


On Tuesday, 13 November 2012 at 19:26:55 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 13 November 2012 at 14:51:58 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 11/13/12 3:23 AM, Thomas Koch wrote:
>>> Tobias Pankrath proposed the github wiki engine (free 
>>> software[3]) and I
>>> agreed that it would be best to just enable the wiki in a new 
>>> project at the
>>> D github account[4].
>
> In case you didn't catch the original thread, I also pointed 
> out there that switching from ProWiki to Gollum might be a case 
> of jumping from the frying pad into the fire. Gollum, the 
> GitHub wiki software, supports none of the useful features of 
> common Wiki software, such as search (!), comfortable history 
> browsing, talk pages, wach lists, permission control, etc. 
> There are also a couple of UI issues which make it less than 
> ideal for larger installations, like the fact that you can 
> accidentally change/break a page URL very easily by just 
> editing the main title box.

I suggested gollum to avoid hosting problems, though I've never 
used it itensively. That said, I don't think, we can do anything 
wrong with a Mediawiki instance.




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