[ubuntu-uk] [SPAM] If you had a wiki, which wiki would you wiki with?

Kris Douglas webbox.uk at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 11:47:49 GMT 2008


On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Chris Rowson
<christopherrowson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like Dokuwiki.
>
> It can authenticate against quite a few different methods, flatfile,
> MySQL, LDAP etc. You can even plug it into an existing user database
> (for instance, I run some forums and authenticate dokuwiki off that
> database.
>
> It's also pretty good for access control. You can configure certain
> groups/users to access specific pages and namespaces. Overall it's
> pretty good.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:
> > Quoting Dave Murphy <dave at schwuk.com>:
> >
> >  > Erm, the title says it all really.
> >  >
> >  > I need a wiki, but I'm not sure what the 'best' one is.
> >  >
> >  > * I'm tending towards Moin because that's what we sue internally
> >  > * I'm (obviously) used to Trac but in this case don't need the ticket
> >  > or svn integration
> >  > * I'm avoiding MediaWiki due to tales of security and frequent patches
> >  > * I've noticed a few projects choosing DokuWiki recently
> >
> >  > Unless anyone has compelling arguments for any others, I'll probably go
> >  > with Moin or Doku (and it will probably be Moin).
> >
> >  I use PMWiki, it's dead easy to install and stores everything in text
> >  files which suited me perfectly for a basic internal Wiki for my
> >  colleagues and I to keep technical stuff on (as a replacement for an
> >  old Lotus Notes database).
> >
> >  IIRC I tried MediaWiki and it was a pain to install and configure for
> >  my basic needs so that's why I went over to PMWiki.
> >
> >  But if you're comfortable with Moin then maybe that's a good idea (I
> >  always like to stick with things I know if I haven't got time or
> >  patience to investigate alternatives).
> >
> >  Rob
> >
> >
> >
> >
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I quite like mediawiki. (the one wikipedia develop on/ use)

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