[H-GEN] Any thoughts on Wiki software?

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Mon Mar 28 02:32:57 EST 2005


On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 05:22:39PM +1000, Michael Anthon wrote:
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> Raymond Smith wrote:
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> >software to use?  I'd be especially interested to know about the 
> >administrative side of your prefered Wiki as I have not been involved 
> >with a Wiki that is open to the general public before.
> > 
> >
> I've used both phpwiki and moinmoin at work.  Didn't particularly like 
> phpwiki but it did the job and was easy to install. 
> 
> We more recently switched to moinmoin and I'm much happier with it.  
> It's python based and doesn't used a database to store the data (one 
> less thiong to go wrong).  I['m not really a python coder (yet) but my 
> co-worker has done a nice theme for it and added some nice new macros... 
> in particular was a nice one that runs an oracle query via the python 
> oci bindings and displays the results in a table which has proved 
> terribly useful for generating dynamic status pages of the goings on in 
> our database.

I work fairly closely with the developer of the MoinMoin Wiki as well as other wiki developers and enthusiasts on the freenode network. So I have good things to say about MoinMoin :)

cheers
James

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