TUNES wiki

delta at qzx.com delta at qzx.com
Mon Aug 7 20:32:11 PDT 2006


On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:29:29 -0400
"Thomas Novelli" <tnovelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mediawiki pros/cons:
> + widespread use
> + user accounts; partial spam control
> - dependencies on Mysql, PHP, etc.
> - perceptibly slow (even to dialup users); wastes server CPU/RAM
> - fancy naming/sorting conventions, better suited to Wikipedia than
> TUNES
> - too complex to customize effectively
> 
> Some features a wiki *should* have:
> - Stricter access controls; 1 month "probation" for new users before
> they can edit pages
> - Annotations/Comments/Margin notes... new users may leave
> comments... since comments are distinct from the page text, a
> spammer's comments can be deleted without affecting subsequent
> revisions.
> - Handle special chars in page names like OS/2, C#, C++
> - Case-insensitive page name matching
> - No relational database... we only have a few thousand pages; store
> them in text files.
> - Store links as sequence numbers, not actual names/URLs, so it's
> simple to rename pages and update external links
> - Store formatted pages in HTML for efficient viewing?
> - Simple category system (like CLiki)... no fancy stuff!

Have you looked at DokuWiki (http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki)? I'm not sure if it can do annotations but everything else in that list is doable.


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