Re: Wikis

Elein wrote:
>
> The last wiki I worked with was TWIKI. It was pretty good,
> easy to use, etc. I recommend it. I've also worked with
> wikiwiki but that was a while ago.

Am looking at Zwiki at the moment. Have downloaded phpwiki, but Zwiki
seems further along the development path and already able to do what's
needed.

It runs on Zope, but that shouldn't be very hard to run with Apache
using Apache as the front end.

Was looking at Drupal initially (it's supposed to work with PostgreSQL
now) before getting into the Wiki side of things, but Drupal's
PostgreSQL functionality isn't yet stable enough for decent production
usage... and it doesn't seem to even be in the same ballpark with
regards to collaborative development. :(

> One comment on wikis--they should never be confused with
> published documentation. Either they are completely the
> published documentation or they are the place to *talk* about
> the documentation. Scattering "official" information is a hazard with
> wikis. This is from experience. I have used wikis both for
> The Documentation and as an adjunct to documentation. It is just
> important to make the distinction. People will update the wiki
> and forget to propagate the info the the official docs. This is
> a social, not a technical problem, though.

Yep. Am thinking that we'll have to establish a few simple guidelines,
and this should really help. Our community members are predominately
team players, so this should help.

:-)

A "lets try it out and see how we can best make it work for us"
mentality is in operation here at present.

:)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

> elein
> elein(at)norcov(dot)com
>
> On Friday 01 November 2002 16:25, Justin Clift wrote:
> > elein wrote:
> > > Neil (et al),
> > >
> > > The kernel traffic sounds great. In previous mail I had said I
> > > was interested in doing a column from pg-general items.
> > >
> > > Are you going to do this on the wiki that Nicolas set up?
> > > If so, I would follow suit, however, I won't be able to start until
> > > the week after next due to other obligations.
> >
> > Not sure where Neil want to do it, but am intent on adding Wiki
> > facilities to the Techdocs site, and it might be a better centralised
> > place for it.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Regards and best wishes,
> >
> > Justin Clift
> >
> > > elein
> > > elein(at)norcov(dot)com

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