Need a wiki

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Mike White">

> I'm looking for the following features:
>  - User login / locked pages
>  - No learning curve for entering
>  - In ubuntu universe
>  - Works out of the box with minimal configuration more or less.

I'd recommend moinmoin for all of these.

>  - Mysql backend preferred.

moinmoin uses a filesystem backend, instead of requiring a full database
server.

> What does wiki.ubuntu.com use?  zwiki?  Is there a lot of overhead and 
> configuration for the Zope server?  I remember having a bad experience 
> getting another Zope-based system running.

We use zwiki, but I'm not sure too many of us would recommend it. :-|

> Additionally, i'd say that phpwiki (as it is in universe) is unusable with
> a stock Ubuntu (Apacke 2.0) system.  Is this a bug?  Or do we not care
> because it's in universe?

Well, it's not a bug the Canonical-sponsored maintainers would be rushing to
fix, but if you happen to find out what the problem is, patches would be
accepted. :-)

- Jeff

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