wiki for household

[Fernando Duran]

Hi,

I've installed and used http://twiki.org/ for a couple years, from what I remember it was Perl and flat file based.

 
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Fernando Duran
http://www.fduran.com


----- Original Message -----
> From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
> To: Toronto Linux Users Group <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 2:20:21 AM
> Subject: [TLUG]: wiki for household
> 
> I'm thinking that it might be nice to have a wiki in our house.  I don't 
> 
> want one in the cloud for privacy reasons.
> 
> Christopher Browne suggested I try to pick TLUG's brains.
> 
> What might the wiki be used for?  Who knows until we live with it for a 
> while.
> 
> - inventories, including photos
> 
> - documenting various kinds of projects (software, hardware, crafts, 
>   culinary (eg. recipes)
> 
> - collections of documents like manuals, links to interesting things
> 
> - possibly replacing our paper filing system (I've got a great scanner for 
>   this purpose; now I need to software architecture).  We have a lot of 
>   paper.
> 
> 
> Why a wiki?
> 
> - easy to add stuff
> 
> - not needing to shoehorn into a restrictive structure (eg. 
>   conventional database)
> 
> - hope that the info is long lived: not in a proprietary format, supported 
>   by a vibrant community, easy to migrate
> 
> 
> Things we need:
> 
> - light weight (I don't want to become further burdened as a sysadmin)
> 
> - stable (change management isn't fun)
> 
> - strong community (to ensure long and healthy life)
> 
> - good support for history (revision control) and backups
> 
> - simplicity
> 
> - pleasant and easy support for pictures and other non-text
> 
> - easy & powerful markup that isn't intrusive (true of all wikis, but 
> some 
>   better than others)
> 
> - grow with our needs (whatever that might turn out to be)
> 
> 
> Initial thoughts:
> 
> I looked at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software> as 
> a starting place.  Open source + Linux were required, for a start.
> 
> - mediawiki looks big to me.  But it is probably a well-travelled road and 
>   might not be that hard to install.  I'm slightly biased against a 
>   data-base back-end.  Used by a lot of big sites, starting with 
>   Wikipedia.
> 
> - DokuWiki.  Don't know enough.  Not ruled out.
> 
> - Gitit has some good qualities: git (or other distributed revision 
>   control system) back end.  Coded in haskell (sexier than PHP).
>   Supports LaTex.  Does it have staying power?
> 
> - ikiwiki.  Perl isn't my favourite (but then neither is PHP).  Uses
>   git (or others) as backend.  Looks to be popular (good).
> 
> - MoinMoun.  Python sounds good to me. CamelCase links seem
>   questionable to me (I'm used to mediawiki's square brackets).
>   Flat-file backend seems good and simple.  Don't know how revision
>   control is managed.
> 
> I don't really know how these handle my requirements.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts about this?
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