On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 07:46:09AM -0400, Ben Wilson wrote: > I just wanted to poll the Community about your deciding factors for > choosing PmWiki over other wikis/CMS tools. I personally chose PmWiki > because of its flat-file focus and customizability. It seems that the > greatest strength of PmWiki is its flexible nature, augmented by > dynamic content generation. But, what do you think?
When I was initially evaluating wikis, the following features of PmWiki stood out for me: - flat file data - easily backed up - easily mirrored - not dependent on a third-party database - good documentation - documentation included in the installation - easy to install, only needs PHP - the *easiest* wiki to upgrade of any that I've seen - configuration and plugins don't require editing the core - many plugins, most of them easy to install - easy configuration - Categories were almost as easy as MediaWiki - namespaces (Groups) - many skins available Now that I've been using it a while, I would add - very responsive developer - good user community (with much kudos to PM for helping keep things civilized) - the power of pagelists - the ease of making skins - the ease of writing plugins - and the funky new features in 2.2 (especially page-text-variables) I like the way that PmWiki can be configured in different ways: that it can be used as a straight Wiki, as a personal organizer, as a content management system, and even as a blogging tool. The PmWiki Philosophy (http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PmWikiPhilosophy) is also very reassuring, especially #3, because creeping featuritis can turn good software into bloated monsters. It's also reassuring simply because it shows that PM is thinking about *why* things should be done to PmWiki, not just doing things because "it seemed like a good idea at the time". I remember one window manager that I loved, because it had all these nifty features, but I gave up on using it because the creator of it just kept on changing things all the time and I got sick of having to rework my setup every time a new version was released. PM, on the other hand, is very good at minimizing disruption of existing setups. Kathryn Andersen -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <http://www.katspace.com> / \ | \_.--.*/ | GenFicCrit mailing list <http://www.katspace.com/gen_fic_crit/> v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
