On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Andrew Crystall <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 29 Dec 2009 at 16:11, Trent Shipley wrote: > > > >> Any other experience wiki-ers here? > > >> > > > > > > Hi. I absolutely detest MediaWiki, though, so I won't be much use for > > > this. (Fos/T Wiki, now...) > > > Why? We can change no problem. There's no content on it yet. > > > > Nick has said that whatever we choose has to use MySQL on the back end. > > Well, Foswiki is flat-file, heh. It scales better than you think from > that though. Honestly, if we're going to be doing anything involving > access permissions (and a scifi lit wiki sounds like we are), then > I'm recommend not using Mediawiki, you tend to end up doing some > nasty hacks. > > Foswiki is a hierarchial wiki with proper access permissions and so > on. It also uses a different markup language to Mediawiki, and one > which I greatly prefer, although I admit if you've only learned > mediawiki there is a small learning curve. You can also do some > fairly good tricks with the markup in creating apps and specially > formatted pages. As long as it runs on Linux (that's the hosted environment) and we can reach consensus AND it isn't a CPU hog (important for costs), I'm fine with whatever. Memory and disk space seem to be non-issues for practical purposes. Nick
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