It's somewhat ironic that the couch wiki has a link to a couchapp wiki server - http://code.google.com/p/tapirwiki I've given it a whirl, and while I might quibble with some of the design decisions, it's quite ok as a start. Don't yet know if it's a suitable launching point for a large-scale app but I'm looking at it from other perspectives, too.
A better wiki is certainly needed, and it would serve the additional purpose of dogfooding the platform development process. David Richardson > There is something very intriguing about this idea to build a wiki based on > CouchDB. It seems like a perfect match for the database. However, there is a > (somewhat) immediate need for a better functioning wiki. What about just > fixing the existing system? Can we figure out why there are 500 errors from > time to time and why it is so slow? If we can get the current system to limp > along for a few more months it will give us time to organize a focused effort > build a Couch based wiki. > > However, if no one thinks that we should try to build a CouchDB based wiki > anytime soon, and a well functioning wiki trumps building our own, then we > should just switch now to whatever is most popular (because this will mean > more people are familiar with it's markup and editing system), and move on. > Eventually the community will develop a wiki based on couch and when it's > mature we can switch to that. > > just a thought > > -Brian > > On Jan 23, 2010, at 2:48 AM, Randall Leeds wrote: > >> Time to write a wiki based on couch ;) >> >> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 00:34, Mikeal Rogers <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I think a better wiki is a good idea. >>> >>> That said, I don't consider MediaWiki a "better" wiki. >>> >>> -Mikeal >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Brian Candler <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:30:53PM -0800, Chris Anderson wrote: >>>>> Should we move onto a more standard wiki software? >>>> >>>> If only there were a "standard" to move to :-( Although I'm forced to use >>>> countless different and incompatible wikis, MediaWiki isn't one of them >>> at >>>> the moment, so I'd have to learn yet another. >>>> >>>> The problem isn't so much the different software, as the different forms >>> of >>>> markup, with everyone thinking they know best how to re-invent and >>> simplify >>>> HTML. >>>> >>>> But in any case the Apache wiki server is dog slow and often gives 500 >>>> errors, so for that reason alone I give a +1 to moving to anything else. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Brian. >>>> >>>> P.S. http://www.wikimatrix.org/ >>>> >>>> P.P.S. There was talk of a couchdb wiki. I came across this which might >>> be >>>> useful in a _show function: http://attacklab.net/showdown/ >>>> >>>
