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Re: [LUG] Wiki packages

 

Rob Beard wrote:
> I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but I need some 
> suggestions of decent Wiki packages.

DCGLUG uses ErfurtWiki
http://www.dcglug.org.uk/wiki/?id=ErfurtWiki
(henceforth known as ewiki.)

It is very lightweight, very easy to customise and - with the odd
exception of bad user input - can be persuaded to render valid HTML
quite easily.

MySQL database, simple directory installation, as you can see from
DCGLUG, edit privileges can be restricted. The only thing that doesn't
quite work in the DCGLUG version is dump to a tar.gz file.

> I instantly thought of a Linux box running LAMP with a Wiki on top.
> 
> I've setup Ubuntu 6.06 server on an old spare PC today (Dell GX110 - P3 
> 667MHz with 128MB memory and a 20GB hard disk).  On top of this I 
> installed MySQL 5, PHP 5 and MediaWiki.

Uk. MediaWiki is, to me, a sledgehammer to crack a nut in this scenario.

> Ideally I'd like something that is easyish to install and even easier to 
> use.

Once I started with ewiki, I simply stopped looking for anything else.
I've considered other wikis, I've tried full CMS tools like Mambo, Zope,
Drupal, Wordpress and about a dozen others. ewiki is very lightweight,
it fits in with *your* design instead of forcing you into the mindset of
the wiki developer and it just gets on with the job. Perfect.


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