Thanks for the comments, guys. As it turns out, I too have been working
with wikis this past year. We have deployed a small handful, started
with Mediawiki, then switched to Twiki (based on it's authentication
model), then switched back to Mediawiki. It was much slicker than
twiki, and we found a way to handle the auth bits.
It seems that each wiki has slightly different syntax, but three
features of MediaWiki that I really like are:
- Short URLs
- Very easy to do "code chunks" (just start a line with a space)
- Relatively slick in appearance. Many of the wikis I've seen
aren't particularly attrictive, and look like it would take a lot
of effort and graphic design skill to make them attractive.
That being said, can you guys send us some examples of sites you like
with the wikis in question? Here are some that I like:
MediaWiki:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/
http://www.wikipedia.org/
Trac:
http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/wiki
Upon reviewing the links I've just posted here, I have one other
thought. I like that trac ties svn commits to trouble tickets, but I
definitely see it as limited from a general wiki perspective; I haven't
used it myself yet, but could definitely believe Sean's comments about
his experience.
However, I don't see any reason why we couldn't have a general purpose
wiki for the primary site, then have /support point to a trac wiki. I
basically hate the SF trouble ticket system, and find it clunky and time
consuming to use. Unfortunately, this often means I don't use it. But
if we had a slicker system, that automatically integrated with email and
svn commits (as I'm led to believe that trac is), then I think I'd use
it all the time, which would be good.
Cheers, -Brian
Thus spake Sean Dague ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:54:18AM -0600, Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
I'm OK with trac. Anyone else care to opine?
-Brian
/me pops his head up
For what it is worth, I've been running moinmoin wikis a number for places
(both internal and external), and found it to be *very good*. I was testing
trac for a while, and actually found that it's wiki annoyed me. I was
missing some of the rich features of moinmoin (like templates), and I found
things were just much more manual.
I'd give moin a chance before you decide on something.
-Sean
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