Re: Central Wiki for Perl (?)

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:01:46 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Adam Kennedy and I used MediaWiki for win32.perl.org and the
Perl-Begin's 
> wikis respectively. It's my favourite wiki engine by far, and it's
probably 
> the wiki engine with most wikitext there written in (by property of
being 
> used in Wikipedia, and many other wikis). It's written in PHP and
requires a 
> MySQL database, but that shouldn't matter much to us:
> 
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/12/advocacy.html
[2]
> 
> It is derived from UseModWiki, which is a nice easy-to-install and use
wiki 
> written in Perl, which has become relatively unmaintained by its author.

> UseModWiki has a fork called Oddmuse which should be better. (and is
also 
> written in Perl). Now the MediaWiki syntax is backwards compatible with
the 
> UseMod/Oddmuse wikis' one, albeit it has many more extensions. I have
once 
> installed UseModWiki, but did not try Oddmuse yet.

When I wanted a wiki I considered MediaWiki but went with TWiki because it
is pure perl, doesn't require a database, and AFAICT has just as many
capabilities as MediaWiki.  Plus it was a lot easier for me to write
plugins and ancillary applications for given my level of Perl expertise vs
my level of PHP expertise, which may be a factor for other folk
maintaining your wiki.

-- 
Peter Scott
http://www.perlmedic.com/
http://www.perldebugged.com/