[mdlug] (dis)recommendations for wiki engine

[Ron Blanchett]

like dokuWiki, we use it at work.
And Penguicon uses it for it's wiki, wiki.penguicon.org.

-Ron

On 4/25/08, Robert Meier <list1c30fe42 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Wiki-Wiki,
>
>  In January, I installed OddMuseWiki at work,
>  chosen because it required only perl and stored text pages
>  with creole markup.
>
>  After 3 months, as I had hoped, the wiki concept,
>  once seen by management as a waste of effort,
>  is now seen as essential.  The time is ripe to upgrade
>  to a more featured wiki engine.
>
>  The users suggest MediaWiki (de Wikipedia),
>  but my initial research suggests that without a formal markup language,
>  pages once imported or submitted into MediaWiki,
>  cannot easily be exported when the time comes
>  (in a few months or years) to upgrade again.
>
>  Has anyone had experience exporting content from MediaWiki
>     into another wiki engine?
>   Which one?
>   How was it accomplished?
>   How many (user-addressable) pages were involved?
>
>  Does anyone have and (dis)recommendations for a wiki content format?
>   creole?
>
>  Does anyone have any (dis)recommendations for a wiki engine
>   (+required -preferred)
>   o with comparable feature set to MediaWiki
>     + scalable to ~10,000 pages
>     + searchable
>       + keyword
>       + multi-word logic
>       - google style
>   + well-defined data format
>     + reversibly exportable
>     - table-generation sql
>     - ABNF for interpretted fields
>
>  TIA,
>  --
>  Bob
>
>   "It will free man from the remaining chains,
>    the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet."
>      -- Wernher von Braun
>
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