wiki for household

Fernando Duran liberosec-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 2 13:30:49 UTC 2012


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Fernando Duran
http://www.fduran.com


----- Original Message -----
> From: Fernando Duran <liberosec-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
> To: "tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org" <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 9:19:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: wiki for household
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed and used http://twiki.org/ for a couple years, from what I 
> remember it was Perl and flat file based.
> 
>  
> ---------------------
> 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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