Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Wiki Software

MediaWiki ... MoinMoin ... TWiki ... PhpWiki ... GeboGebo
  • My favourite is MediaWiki (http://mediawiki.org), the wiki engine of http://wikipedai.org. It stores the stuff in MySQL and has sufficient access control. It is written in PHP. It seems to be the best in this list. I'have installed it for my project team. The "installation experience" was very good. We will like it. I run MediaWiki on two Linux installations. I did not try it on Windows (see the Streamlined_Windows_Install_Guide if interested).
  • MoinMoin is based on Python. I have installed it from TheOpenCD onto my windoze. Stores the stuff in the file system (easy to backup).
  • Another tip is http://twiki.org, the engine of the java.net wiki. It is written in Perl and runs as cgi. Stores the wiki stuff in file system (RCS version control). Has fine access control.
  • Installed PhpWiki (http://www.phpwiki.org) at home, just to try it. Chosen the 1.2 (stable) version. It does not have access control. (Apache htaccess probably works). The 1.3 (development) version does have access control.
  • The GeboGebo wiki has a nice AutoLink feature. It is based on the tbdengine, a non-SQL RDBMS written in freepascal.
Java Wiki
  • http://snipsnap.org - features wiki with namespaces and categories + blog
  • and others at http://java-source.net/open-source/wiki-engines
Software hosting - this can be seen as some kind of recommendation, some kind of selection:

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