[kwlug disc.] Wiki wiki wiki

[Sy Ali]

On 1/18/07, Paul Nijjar <pnijjar at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>         Sy's suggestion is pointing to us looking at MediaWiki again. It
> is certainly a famous choice, so many people have probably worked on the
> problems I am worried about.

A wiki certainly is a quick solution.  But if you're going to be
leaning a lot of weight on this system, you may want to think about
what the effort might be if you were to migrate to another system
later.

I locked myself into an awesome CMS-style wiki way back in the day,
but due to inconceivable problems (data going missing!) I had to
switch.  Years later I still have data trapped in that environment.
Now that I'm using mediawiki, my data is trapped there now.

I have mixed feelings about mediawiki - the developer philosophy is
totally wrong in my mind.  Migrating again will only be to a CMS which
I fund and manage myself.  (work begins in a month or so)


>         RSS feeds are okay, but right now actual e-mail updates are
> important. That may change as my audience migrates towards RSS.

I do believe there are solutions to do email notification.  I recall
this being a pretty big topic.

If you do end up swinging this way, I can ask on the mailing list to
confirm this for you.