The Zope Wiki. But by Wiki I mean "something more freely editable", not Wiki precisely. The document types for documents themselves will probably be non-Wikified, HTML is a better choice there.
--John s.m. koppelman wrote: > What's the Wiki intended for? A Wiki doesn't strike me as all that > suitable for storing documentation itself; the format is much too loose > and.. wiki-ish. They're great for whiteboarding, and I could sort of see > the value of Wiki-like capabilities in a commenting component and maybe > as an authoring tool for internal developer FAQs, but I think if some of > the targets here are: > > 1. Low-barrier authoring of professional-quality structured docs > 2. Low-barrier, robust versioning and workflow tools > 3. "Natural", low-effort content organization and indexing > 4. Low-barrier public annotation for collecting corrections and > improvements > > ..the Zope-to-CVS approach seems the most promising for the overall > system, as it's a robust, high-level CMS toolkit out of the box, and > this sort of thing has been done before quite successfully with it. Zope > was made for building collaborative authoring systems and large, > hierarchical document databases. The only other comparably successful > documentation effort I've seen is PHP's--but nice as the PHP team's > annotated documentation system is, there's otherwise a lack of the other > pieces (workflow, versioning, generic CMS forms tools, et al) and there > would be a lot more reinventing of the wheel. Building a docs CMS from > the ground up in raw Perl or Python (or Java or RPG or Forth or Logo) > seems needlessly NIH. > > Whatever happens, I hope the best (most efficient and productive) tools > are put into play for the docs project and that we don't end up with the > lowest-common-denominator just because that's how open-source projects > supposedly get developed. From the outside, this is how it sometimes looks. > > I do think the folks prototyping a Zope system would help their cause if > they got it hosted on a machine that someone would keep running. I'd > offer use of my own Zope installation but I just don't have enough disk > quota for versioned Mozilla docs. > > There's a nice port of Wiki available in Zope. Are you using that or the > genuine Perl standalone? > > -sk > > John Keiser wrote: > >> I am making a Wiki for us to experiment with and do with what we will >> (as soon as I figure out how to make freezope do permissions it will >> be online and ready to go). This may help soften the debate, as >> people will be able to create monolithic entry pages as they choose. >> >> --John > >
