Andrew Miehs wrote: > The two that come to mind are jspWiki, and Twiki. > > Has anyone had BAD experiences with either of these two? or should I be using > something completely different... (Am NOT a PHP fan.)
No. ;-) I use TWiki for WikiLearn (http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn). I evaluated wikis about 3 years ago and decided TWiki was closest to meeting all my needs. It was, and AFAICT, it still is. An advantage of TWiki is that it has an active community of developers instead of the typical lone developer (for wikis). There are some disappointments, but they are gradually being addressed, and one day I'd expect all will be well. The one wiki I did not evaluate very carefully three years ago was the mediawiki, and if I had to pick again, I would evaluate it. Things that drew me to TWiki included: * permanent storage of all revisions (except when temp storage on SourceForge (or wherever your hosting is done) runs out -- in that case, revisions that occur during the problem are rolled into a single revision) * diff capability (although I'd prefer "Word style" diffs) * per page access control (read, write) * email notification of changes (unfortunately, on a web rather than an individual page basis) BTW, TWiki allows dividing a wiki into multiple "webs" (think directories or sub-wikis). Recently TWiki got a face lift with a new skin (but you can revert to the classic look or choose from a multitude of other skins). Storage of content is in "plain text" files (well, plain text plus TWiki markup) which means, among other things, that you can consider using other search engines if you don't like TWikis. (On the WikiLearn site, I provide access to Google or the TWiki search engines.) When I investigated wikis, I created pages on the C2 wiki, titled something like WikiEngineReview. They were never finished or totally organized, in fact they look pretty ugly at this point, but they may give you some help, and if you're ambitious (even a little), you might correct any errors or omissions you notice. regards, Randy Kramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
