Wiki recommendations -- Practical Experience

[Patton Echols]

Brian McKee wrote:
>
> Your requirements list looks kinda similar to something I need to do
> soon. Would appreciate you posting back what you decide and why.
>
> Brian
>
>   


For those who are interested, I ended up with MoinMoin.  Here's why and 
just a little about the experience:

The last two choices I considered were MediaWiki and Moin.  This was 
because all of the suggestions have most of the same features and these 
two are both mentioned in the Ubuntu Server Guide.  So I expected good 
directions.

The over all requirement is a flexible and easy user interface.  
MoinMoin promised a GUI editor as well as plugins to import and export 
OO documents.  In addition, even though ease of installation was not a 
primary factor, the in depth guides for Moin looked more 
straightforward.  (Probably because I am clueless about mySQL)

MoinMoin installed out of the Repos well enough and the instructions for 
configuration worked pretty well.  Problem is that the version in the 
Karmic repos (1.8.4) does not have the functioning  GUI editor!  After 
it was way too late, I found some instructions for upgrading in place.  
Instead, I apt-get purged 1.8.4 and installed 1.9.2 from scratch.  At 
this point, most everything works, though I am still learning about the 
plugins etc. 

If anyone wants to pursue this project, let me know and I can provide 
some additional pointers.  (The moinmoin instructions are written by 
python coders.  It all makes sense to them, but to a non-coder it can be 
a challenge!)  If you post here and don't get an answer from me, try an 
email to me direct.  This thread is already sort of buried.

--PE