[kwlug disc.] Wiki wiki wiki

[Sy Ali]

On 1/17/07, Paul Nijjar <pnijjar at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>         0. Reasonable syntax (Markdown would be good but it certainly is
> not necessary. The ability to have multiple levels of bullet lists and
> good whitespace would be nice). Non-techies need to use this.

Consider a WYSIWYG-type editor.  However, nothing has been found which
allows for maintaining a reasonable revision-history.  These editors
seem to mangle the source markup.

There is a good rumour that a mediawiki-compatible editor is in the
works and will be ready in the next few months (i.e. it has commercial
backing)


>         3. Good access control (really, I want to lock this thing down to
> only a few users, but those users may access  the wiki from anywhere on
> the Internet)

mediawiki allows this quite easily.


>         6. Good email notifications that indicate what the most recent
> changes are

Is an RSS-feed good?  I think there might be an extension to email
changes.  Watchlists exist, and you can filter out your own changes
from the changelist.


>         I was looking at MediaWiki but after skimming through the
> documentation it looks like access control is a pain.

It lacks fine-grained permissions - i.e. per-page unix-style permissions.

But you could lock the entire wiki down except for a few users.  This
is simple to do.  And it's trivial for an admin to make a new user and
email the user their account information.