[plug] Which Wiki?

Shayne O'Neill shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au
Thu Jul 22 16:39:56 WST 2004


http://piece.stanford.edu/~brendano/wysimoin/

knock yerself out.

Works with moz, firefox, ie > v5.1

does not work with ie on mac , opera and konq/safari

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Shayne O'Neill. http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Shayne O'Neill wrote:

>
> Theres a few out there now that use htmlarea (including my own one which
> alas I'm not really into explaining how to set up, since its servlet(!)
> based)
>
> I saw another htmlarea one the other day, and alas cant remember the name,
> but these are great, since its pretty much wysiwyg, and on the windoze
> boxes even let folks paste in word stuff with formatting etc intact.
>
> --
> "the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And
> we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."
> George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2003
>
> Shayne O'Neill. http://www.perthimc.asn.au
>
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Russell Steicke wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:46:31PM +0800, Adrian Woodley wrote:
> > ...
> > >       1. Which wiki would people recommend? I think the two most
> > > important features are ease of use, particularly a sensible mark-up, and
> > > good handling of bullets and numbered list.
> >
> > I use moinmoin for my own notes (http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/).  It
> > was very simple to install, but the markup can be a bit verbose.  It
> > uses lots of double and triple quotes, eg '''''foo''''' makes foo bold
> > italic, and fixed width font is done with {{{text here}}}.
> >
> > We have an internal twiki (http://twiki.org/) at work.  The markup is a
> > bit easier on the eye than moinmoin's.
> >
> > >       2. Is it better to store the wiki in a database, flat file or
> > > something else?
> >
> > Both of these store data in files, which is my preference for
> > simplicity.  Moinmoin stores each revision in a file with a time-stamped
> > name, and twiki uses RCS files.   You can backup the whole thing easily
> > with a short shell script.
> >
> > If you think you're going to be explaining the markup to people, I'd
> > recommend twiki over moinmoin.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Russell Steicke
> >
> > -- Fortune says:
> > Now there's a violent movie titled, "The Croquet Homicide," or "Murder
> > With Mallets Aforethought."
> > 		-- Shelby Friedman, WSJ.
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