It has gotten to the point where people are reporting bugs in our wiki that i can't fix because the phpwiki code it too much like spaghetti.
There is one main phpwiki developer, and while he's very good at php development, the codebase dwarfs him :). I'm thinking of moving us to a more actively developed and supported wiki software, such as MoinMoin or Mediawiki. My first choice is MoinMoin, since it is very actively developed *and* it's well architected, written in python, and easy to understand and modify. MediaWiki seems too abstracted and heavyweight (I'm sure you can do anything you want with it, it just seems like massive overkill for simple wikis) I've converted our pages to MoinMoin, and put up the result at http://www.dberlin.org/wiki There is still some hand editing required that i'm doing. The main difference in format syntax between phpwiki and moinmoin is in bolding/italics/verbatim, and a slightly simpler list syntax. This is actually true of phpwiki vs anything. MoinMoin and Mediawiki use the same bolding/italic/etc format. If we really like the old syntax better, i can try to add it. I can actually write a simple formatter for texinfo so you can keep texinfo pages in the wiki, edit them like you edit wiki pages, and it will display the results as texinfo converted html. The same is true of things like docbook, see http://www.dberlin.org/wiki/HelpOnXmlPages Anyhoo, unless someone has a good reason not to, i'll convert the wiki sometimes in the next few weeks. --Dan
