Do we want a wiki?

Post #299,915 by pwhysall 11/17/08 12:57:28 PM Reply	Do we want a wiki? Discuss.
Post #299,918 by beepster 11/17/08 1:51:29 PM Reply	We used to have one it was a good place to house commonly needed stuff
Post #299,919 by folkert 11/17/08 1:54:26 PM Reply	Not unless its fully "apt-get" upgradeable and is... able to have external auth... for like what the new J stuffs may offer. Of course... Its not me maintaining the machine.
Post #299,920 by Another Scott 11/17/08 2:01:35 PM Reply	Good in theory. But our previous one was very slow to read. I don't know whether it was TWiki specific, or even specific to that build, but it was very frustrating to me to have to wait so long to have a page appear. A general dumping ground for HTML pages might be simpler? Hyperlinking between them would be difficult with such an arrangement, though. :-( I guess it depends on what we want it for. If it's for more than just a convenient spot for simple relatively persistent HTML, then someone would probably have to babysit it and make sure that it wasn't attacked by comment spam, etc., etc. Nothing's simple. :-( Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #300,127 by pwhysall 11/20/08 10:59:05 PM Reply	The bloke who was the original developer of Twiki... ...appears to have gone stark raving mad :http://tech.slashdot...d=08/10/29/146201 I'd suggest a different Wiki product - perhaps MediaWiki, or Meatball. Or anything that doesn't have a loony in charge.
Post #300,131 by malraux 11/20/08 11:15:12 PM Reply	We use MediaWiki at work Although I'm not the admin, so I have no idea of that part of how the product works. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #300,132 by mvitale 11/20/08 11:32:34 PM Reply	I've set up MediaWikis before. Easy-peasy, TBH. And once they're configured the first time, you generally don't have to touch 'em, except via in-Wiki changes. And that's just editing the silly pages. -Mike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #299,924 by drook 11/17/08 3:28:05 PM Reply	I liked having it It's a good mechanism for documenting events, meaning it's good when it's "about" something. I second Greg's suggestion to -- if possible -- integrate authentication with this site. I know TWiki could authenticate via LDAP, I don't know what is possible with the current IWETHEY code. If a specific flavor of Wiki makes integration possible, that's IMO a huge mark in its favor. -- Drew
Post #299,936 by static 11/17/08 5:08:13 PM Reply	I think the choice of engine is important. With the popularity of Wikipedia, MediaWiki is a widely known platform. TWiki was just a little too different. Wade.
Post #299,940 by Another Scott 11/17/08 6:42:07 PM Reply	If we don't want to start from scratch... The HTML of at least some of the versions of TWikIWeThey is at the Internet Archive: E.g. http://web.archive.o...ki/bin/view/Main/ (I don't know if that's (from October 2006) the latest good version - I just picked one at random.) Someone who's an expert with Wget might be able to snag a local copy with the appropriate relative links. Perhaps. Cheers, Scott.
Post #299,947 by malraux 11/17/08 7:38:13 PM 11/17/08 7:38:23 PM Reply	I have the Twiki backup somewhere Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. Edited by malraux Nov. 17, 2008, 07:38:23 PM EST Expand All History
Post #299,948 by Another Scott 11/17/08 8:13:40 PM Reply	Ah, thanks. :-)

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