wiki for household
Fernando Duran
liberosec-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 2 13:30:49 UTC 2012
http://twiki.org/
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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.
>
>
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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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