1. It is set up for including code samples in a way that MediaWiki is not.
2. It allows one wiki installation to include various sub-sections which
are kept seperarate, in seperate namespaces. We have several different
independent projects on our MediaWiki, but MediaWiki mixes them all
together.
3. In general, it was written for documentation and code content, rather
than for encyclopedia content.  Code4Lib needs tilt more toward the former.

Jonathan

Andrew Darby wrote:
Out of curiosity, as an infrequent wikier, why the strong preference
for dokuwiki?

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I would still personally really like a dokuwiki hosted at code4lib.org.
I am not happy with the mediawiki. If anyone is interested in setting up
and admining a dokuwiki, I would support that.

Jonathan

Ryan Eby wrote:

Just catching up now on Code4Lib emails. I threw this idea around
awhile back in #code4lib and it seemed like most thought people used
their own blog for snippets and code hosts for real projects and it
wasn't worth doing. I was thinking wiki for code snippets with maybe
svn for various small libraries / hacks. At the time I was looking at
just using trac so the two would be together.

If there's enough movement for just the snippets parts then I agree
with others that dokuwiki or drupal category would probably be useful.

Eby

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Keith Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Does there already exist some place to put some code examples to share
with the code4lib community?  (I'm thinking of snippets somewhere on
the order of 10-100 lines, like the definition of a php function.)

Keith




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