[ba-ohs-talk] Wiki experiences?
I know a bunch of people on this list have used and/or administered Wikis.
What have your experiences (both pro and con) been with various Wikis?
(I'll summarize responses in a dialog map.) (01)
I've used and administered TWiki (http://www.twiki.org/) and UseModWiki
(http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl). (02)
Twiki pro: (03)
* Lots of features. Version control, access control, e-mail notification,
Wiki partitioning, tables, plugins, etc. (04)
Twiki con: (05)
* Way, way, way too complex. Defeats the purpose of a Wiki in the first
place, which is supposed to be simple. Exacerbating this problem is
that the default templates are horrible. (06)
UseModeWiki was originally used by Wikipedia, and I believe they spun it
off to support their own features. (07)
Pros: (08)
* Simple to configure and install. Dropped it in my cgi-bin, edited a
config file, and was off-and-running. (09)
* Fairly featureful. Version control. (010)
* Fairly configurable. (011)
No cons, although it would be nice to have access control. Better yet, it
would be nice to have hooks to link into a site's existing version
control. Probably easy enough to hack. (012)
I know Chris Dent is using MoinWiki, and John Sechrest has also used and
administered Wikis. What are your experiences? (013)
-Eugene (014)
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