Re: tikiwiki

tiki can use mysql for registration & authentication, in its own tables,
or -- and this was necessary for my installation -- LDAP. Actually I have
used both kinds of authentication methods at different sites. In the wiki
itself it maintains versions of every page, so all contributors are tracked.
Other areas of the program (file galleries, forums, polls) log user id.
Permissions are pretty granular, so you can allow anonymous wiki editing, or
restrict it to registered users, or even a subset of those.

If you're _only_ looking for a wiki, there are more full-featured ones. My
experience is more with groupware -- last summer I tried a few from this
list, and other places:
http://www.svpal.org/~grantbow/groupware.html (not just wikis)
including Bazaar, Compiere, Drupal, eGroupWare, moreGroupWare, phpGroupware,
phpNuke and more I've fogotten. I've used -- although not installed --
MediaWiki (as in wikipedia). I also manage a moodle installation, although
that's courseware. Note that "last summer" was a long time ago, and lots of
code has flowed under the bridge since then, I'm sure.

I settled on tiki because 1) it's easy to customize (I quickly wrote several
new modules, and I'm no PHP wizard), and 2) it has a good complement of
other features [news, calendars, forums, image & file galleries, polls,
blogs, RSS feeds, xmlrpc, nice extra features for registered users, tons
more] and 3) it was under some of the most active development of the apps I
tried. Installation was easy, another plus for me. YMMV. Caveats I must
mention is that the calendar hasn't been updated recently; it works, but
doesn't have lots of features -- I don't use it, so I can't even tell you if
it's buggy. I suppose you could use something else for calendaring if it
wasn't up to the job.

Zwiki, being zope-based, looks quite interesting. (I'm hoping eventually to
use something zope-based to publish a school newspaper -- hopefully
something that will make the print editions doable with little work from the
online versions.)

Hope this isn't TMI,
jermudgeon

> Which Wiki's have you tried? What mechanism does this wiki use to track
> contributors?
>
> Mike
>
>
> From: <admin@wsfnet.org>
> Subject: Re: Setting up a Wiki
> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:58:55 -0900
>
> > I personally have no objection to a Wiki. It could enhance Aklugs
> > presence & service.
>
> An easy-to-use wiki -- heavily developed -- is http://tikiwiki.org, my
> personal favorite after many trials. Not necessarily the most cosmetic,
> although quite customizable with CSS in that department, but has a
> feature
> list as long as your arm. Uses PHP.
>
> jermudgeon

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Received on Mon Mar 22 20:50:40 2004