I have been looking for a wiki engine these days. On the one hand, I think it would be a good idea to have a wiki on w.w.o (with some restrictions) in order to make the website more active. This way we could improve sections that are not always up to date, such as the FAQ, the screenshots, or even the news in the home page.
On the other hand, the problems on w.s.i remain. We are still losing information. But more important is the fact that people will end up losing their interest in contributing to it (as ott pointed out). (Note that I wanted to run it on w.w.o, and we only have PHP there, so it is not possible to run twiki, moinmoin, or instiki.) --- So far, I have tried mediawiki, pmwiki, dokuwiki and wikkawiki, and amongst those, mediawiki and pmwiki are probably the most promising. Mediwiki[1] is the well known wiki engine under wikipedia: scalability assured. It has most of the features (if not all) you can think of. 1. http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/ Cons: * Slow. It could probably work fine on a dedicated sever with the recommended settings (turck-mmcache, memory-limit 20MB, squid...). Howerver, our access to w.w.o is very restricted. * Ugly URL's. It would be possible to clean the URL's, but that would require some changes. Pros: * Scalability. * Per-article discussion page. * User registration. Pmwiki[2], on the other hand, is more lightweight. It is designed for web authoring and maintenance. 2. http://pmwiki.org/ Cons: * User registration. No users by default, but there is a plugin available. (Note that even without users, it is possible to restrict the permissions of pages and groups.) * Advanced attachments. It supports attachments, but it does not have some advanced features (for instance, image thumbnailing). Pros: * Fast. * Flat files. Does not require a database. * Clean URL's. * Easy to setup. * Very customizable layout. ---- I have set up a mediawiki[3] and a pmwiki[4] on w.w.o with a similar layout (style based on the story images, by Jetryl). 3. http://wesnoth.org/mediawiki/ 4. http://wesnoth.org/pmwiki/ If we had a dedicated server, I would probably prefer mediawiki. But this is not the case, and I think pmwiki is also a good option. Anyway, we have to decide the future of w.w.o and w.s.i. If we are to move w.w.o to a wiki engine, we could also migrate our current wiki, and left the perl scripts on w.s.i. What are your thoughts? Do you think it is worth moving w.w.o to a wiki engine? And what should we do with the broken wiki?
