Nick Arnett wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Andrew Crystall > <[email protected] <mailto:[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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com > > Andrew seems to be saying that Foswiki is a dreamboat to administer. That is in keeping with Foswiki's marketing position.
http://foswiki.org/Community/DescriptionsOfFoswiki "Foswiki is a structured wiki with tools that enable users without programming skills to build powerful yet simple applications to process information and support workflows." The Foswiki community is actually positioning the product as what I call an un-wiki. If you turn everything off it works like wikis were originally intended to work with no workflow model and two levels of heirarchy, administrators and participants (and administrators were supposed to mostly lurk). But they are really meant to be used with multiple roles, hierarchies of users, and workflow events like form approvals and change management -- an un-wiki designed for business. _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
