Which Wiki is right for you?

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Christopher Browne wrote:

> Further, given an ssh key, I could hack on my copy, and "git push
> origin master" to push my changes over to the "official" instance.

I was about to post and say "yeah that's what we do in SPI"...

> I observe that this is exactly what Software In The Public Interest
> has done with their web site:
> <http://git.spi-inc.org/gitweb/?p=website.git> is the Git repo that
> publishes <http://spi-inc.org/>.  I note that "our own" Robert
> Brockway is one of the heavy editors of that repo :-).

Write access is exclusively through ssh key.

This is the first time I've used git.  It was easy to pick up.

> I haven't been entirely thrilled with ikiwiki (http://ikiwiki.info) in
> my bit of playing with it; I'm keeping my eyes peeled as other things
> like gitit, git-wiki, emerge.

I'm not really in love with Ikiwiki but it's what SPI uses so it's what I 
use to edit the website.

Having a local copy of the repo doesn't help me much as I can't easily 
display the page before pushing it anyway.  I ended up solving this by 
creating a 'drafts'[1] area on the website where I can view draft pages 
while I'm writing them.

[1] A drafts area on the live website works fine for SPI since it aims to 
achieve as much transparency as possible anyway, but this would not be ok 
in many organisations.

Cheers,

Rob

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