Re: wiki recommendations (gentoo)

[Jim Cheetham]

http://phpwiki.sf.net is undergoing active development at the moment, 
and versions between 1.3.11 (not yet released, but good in CVS) and 
1.3.4 are probably not very stable.

I've looked at a few (twiki, moinmoin, mediawiki) and phpwiki is the 
"quickest" for the end user - you are not *forced* to preview before 
saving (as in twiki), and the common markup options are listed on the 
edit page! The "Crao" theme is pretty nice too :-)

mediawiki suits a large number of users, as it comes with a hierarchy of 
users and permissions, plus the interesting "discussion" section per 
page. It's the back-end for wikipedia and so on.

Twiki is, ihmo, clunky and ugly. I couldn't get a MoinMoin working 
quickly, so I have up on it. Ubuntu uses it, and I've only edited a 
couple of things on their wiki, and it didn't suck too much ...

The big problem with wikis is maintaining the access points to 
documents. If you don't keep the hierarchy clear, you can loose gems in 
the morass.

For semi-structured note-taking, I use http://freemind.sf.net - a 
mind-mapping java application (and applet) that unfortunately doesn't 
allow multiple editing, but can be shared as read-only.

-jim