Onkar Shinde wrote:
Kunal Thakar wrote:
The wiki is a great idea. I think PLUG website should host wikis on the
website. Wikis are proving to be very helpful when dealing with general
help issues. Ubuntu uses wikis very nicely on their website to provide
help.
From the top of my mind, here are some topics which keep on cropping up
on the mailing list. Wikis for these topics will definitely be helpful
IMHO:
1. Selection of a distro
2. Switching from Turbo C IDE to Linux programming environment
3. The biggest bugbear of Linux, unsupported hardware (everything from
modems, video cards, audio cards, etc deserve a wiki of their own!).
IIRC, BAIN implemented a wiki on his website with regard to modems.
4. Broadband
Hi Kunal,
This is a good idea. I myself have experience setting up and using wiki's for
internal project use at our company.
I have used two wiki engines:
1) MediaWiki (Apache, PHP, MySQL based) - Setting up is easy on any platform.
But its markup is somewhat hard to remember and use.
I disagree with wiki markup being hard to use.
1. Writing in Mediawiki format is much easier than doing the same in
HTML. Further no tools like Frontpage needed.
2. Makes it super easy to make corrections, changes, additions to
existing documentation. If you spot an error while reading the
documentation you should be able to fix it there and then.
3. Easier to track changes of pages.
4. Makes documentation searchable.
Those who not tried mediawiki may have a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
2) TWiki (Apache, Perl, Flat files based) - Setup is easy on GNU/Linux system
but really problematic on Windows. Markup is really easy to
remember and use.
I would like to receive more inputs about this idea from others. Also I don't
even have slightest idea about the facilities on the server that
hosts PLUG site. So we can't yet decide which Wiki clone is better.
Waiting for replies.
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