On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:01:46 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Adam Kennedy and I used MediaWiki for win32.perl.org and the Perl-Begin's > wikis respectively. It's my favourite wiki engine by far, and it's probably > the wiki engine with most wikitext there written in (by property of being > used in Wikipedia, and many other wikis). It's written in PHP and requires a > MySQL database, but that shouldn't matter much to us: > > http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/12/advocacy.html [2] > > It is derived from UseModWiki, which is a nice easy-to-install and use wiki > written in Perl, which has become relatively unmaintained by its author. > UseModWiki has a fork called Oddmuse which should be better. (and is also > written in Perl). Now the MediaWiki syntax is backwards compatible with the > UseMod/Oddmuse wikis' one, albeit it has many more extensions. I have once > installed UseModWiki, but did not try Oddmuse yet.
When I wanted a wiki I considered MediaWiki but went with TWiki because it is pure perl, doesn't require a database, and AFAICT has just as many capabilities as MediaWiki. Plus it was a lot easier for me to write plugins and ancillary applications for given my level of Perl expertise vs my level of PHP expertise, which may be a factor for other folk maintaining your wiki. -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/
