On Tuesday 22 Sep 2009 01:26:23 Yaron Shahrabani wrote: > Generally I think that we should choose the one that offers the most > consistent support in Hebrew, a project that has the best Hebrew > maintenance level
As Amit mentioned, www.iglu.org.il will primarily be in English - not in Hebrew. We need good Unicode support and some rudimentary support for Bidi (e.g: align="right"/align="left"/dir="rtl"/dir="ltr"/etc.) but that's it. > From my basic knowledge: > Wikia alongside the entire MediaWiki software and plugins is pretty good > but not maintained periodically (I'm an active translator there) > If there are more members from the Israeli community that would like to > contribute to the MediaWiki software I think it would be much better, > nowadays the only technical maintainer is Rotemliss and he is doing a great > job but he doesn't have any time for it > Well, MediaWiki is technically a wiki and not a blog engine, and so not what I'm looking for. There's also MojoMojo, which is a powerful wiki written in Perl: http://mojomojo.org/ They said something about making it suitable for use as a blog and I can ping them about it, or ask how to contribute. MojoMojo is made out of many components (over 200 CPAN modules last time I checked), each one with their extensive tests. On the other hand, MediaWiki is monolithic, and its test suite (which is far from having a good coverage) still didn't run successfully last time I checked. And MojoMojo has some advantages over MediaWiki (but also vice versa). > I think the big dilemma is between Drupal and WordPress, I personally think > that MovableType will not satisfy the community and authors needs Why MovableType won't? > > Drupal, although somewhat maintained would be to heavy for the cause... > WordPress, although pretty simple can be very powerful and cover almost all > needs Maybe, but I: 1. Will need to install many plugins. 2. Will need to remember to religiously keep it up-to-date, or hope that Debian Stable will. WordPress had many vulnerabilities in the past due to "sloppy" coding. "sloppy" is in quotes because it is far too easy to write such dangerous code in PHP. We can easily get hit by a worm or a specialised hacker or something, and I'd prefer to avoid it. There was this worm: http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/01/28/msworm.html It affected only MS-SQL (which isn't supposed to be exposed to the outside Internet) and affected only several thousands of hosts, yet slowed down the global Internet considerably. There are several ordered of magnitude of publicly accessible WordPress deployments now - making them a very attractive target for do-badnicks. So I'd prefer against relying on WordPress given its poor security record and a possible negligence of me in maintaining it. > > That's my personal perspective, anyone else? More are welcome. > Yaron Shahrabani - CTO > "The Campus" > Web: http://www.hacampus.org.il/ > Israeli Applicable Studies Institute > 200 Hativat Yiftah St., Karmiel, Israel > Phone Number: +972 (4) 9988508 > Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list Discussions@hamakor.org.il http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
