>> After looking I fount that there are several Wiki
>> engines available. Which one is the best?
> Mike MacIsaac and I have installed and played with both MediaWiki, and
Confluence.

Yes, and I've also run moinmoin on z. moinmoin's backend is just the
filesystem, so you can "cheat" and modify content with vi.
But, having used WYSIWYG editors for a long time, it is hard to go back to
tagging, especially with a project that requires substantial
documentation.

I like Confluence the best because it creates browser tabs that allow you
to edit content in both "tagged" mode and what I would call
"near-WYSIWYG". The presentation also seems just a bit more polished than
the others.

> And once you do get sufficient content in the Wiki you may need a way
> to re-use that text to produce a static web site or a printed book.
> Depending on how text is kept in the system, that may be easy or very
> hard.
I concur with Rob on this. It seems hard to "get your arms around" your
wiki content.  But I didn't do a lot of work with any wiki, so there are
probably tools/functions that allow you to. It's just a different mindset
from the book model of documentation.

Hope this helps.

"Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   (845) 433-7061

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