OT: best FOSS wiki for this classroom scenario?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Samstag, den 22.02.2020, 14:10 -0500 schrieb Little Girl:
> Hey there,
> 
> Volker Wysk wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 20.02.2020, 08:00 -0500 schrieb Little Girl:
>    
> > > I wouldn't say that this is OT. The Ubuntu wiki uses MoinMoin, so
> > > that's what I've been using for my personal wiki.  
> > 
> > I'm using it as a personal wiki, too.
> 
> When I saw that you could use it in desktop mode instead of as an
> installed piece of software, that was enough to sell me on it. That,
> and the fact that everything is a plain text file, which means if the
> program ever stops working, all of the data will still be easily
> accessible.
> 
> > > I don't use the GUI editor, so I have no experience with it, but
> > > others here probably do.  
> > 
> > I use the GUI editor in parallel to the text editor. The GUI editor
> > is useful for simple tasks, but it's buggy.
> 
> Yeah, I wasn't aware of that because I don't use it. I only use the
> text editor in MoinMoin.
> 
> > In my case, I wouldn't go for MoinMoin again. It's too buggy, and
> > it
> > has no database integration, which I would use if I could. (I'm not
> > saying that this is a general feature of wikis.)
> 
> I wasn't aware that it was buggy, but I guess my use of it hasn't
> made any of the bugs come to light. I do quite a few different things
> with it, but so far, so good. As far as the database integration,
> Wikipedia has a wiki comparison page where you can check which has
> which features. You might want to poke around on that page to see if
> there are some you'd like to play around with.

That's one big comparison. But it doesn't list database integration
(that's what I call it). It only lists "data backend", which subsumes
both storage of wiki data (pages, attachments) and user defined
database data, following a user scheme.

I want to be able to store and access data in a database, for instance
for my books. AFAIK, XWiki supports that, but MoinMoin doesn't. (I
won't use XWiki for different reasons).

Bye,
Volker