wikis (was Re: [BBLISA] Suggestions for a documentation system)

[Chaos Golubitsky]

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On Thu, 20 Oct, 2005 at 17:24:13 -0400, Douglas Alan wrote:

> I second MoinMoin.  (Though it would be nice if it supported keeping old
> revisions in RCS, rather than keeping every revision in its own file.)
> I've been burned by programs that use databases to store information,
> because then if the program dies for some reason, your data is trapped
> inside the database.  If one is a database expert, perhaps this is not a
> problem, but I'm not a db expert, so I prefer ascii files.

We had to move our wiki away from MoinMoin because we had a lot of
trouble with the wiki crashing people's browsers (particularly
Firefox?) mid-edit.  We're running on MediaWiki now and like it
pretty well so far.  Getting data out of MySQL databases isn't very
hard --- in the worst case, mysqldump gives you a flat file.

That said, if you want a flat-file wiki, another option is DokuWiki,
which is an easy install.  (I don't know much about its functionality
for end users, but it seems reasonable at a glance.)  It also appears
to keep old revisions as separate files.

Chaos
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