[ale] wiki recommendations?

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 11:11:32 EST 2006


On 1/3/06, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I run TWiki ( http://twiki.org ) on my site (http://tomshiro.org).
> It's had a security hole, which I got nailed on but fixed.  It's all cgi-bin
> scripts. Since it's written in perl,  having good perl Chops helps with
> admin and installation.

I'm perl-impaired for the time being, so I'll wait on that one.

>
>  I've also played with MediaWiki (
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki ), which is what
> wikipedia uses.
>  It's probly about as hard to install as MoinMoin though. OTOH my coder
> friend who Can't Install Anything actually managed to get it to work at his
> office.

I'll take a look at it.

>
>  At work we're using VeryQuickWiki ( http://www.vqwiki.org/ ) which is
> really easy to install if you already have tomcat running. That'll involve
> installing both java and tomcat, which may be hirsute depending on your
> distro. VeryQuickWiki is kind of minimalist on features too.

Minimal may be enough, and I've got Java installed, but not Tomcat. 
OTOH, I've got coworkers who know tomcat...

>
>  Hope this helps..
>
>  -- CHS
>
>

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