twiki and moin moin

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Feb 28 22:40:57 EST 2005


What do you think of Faq-o-matic?

  http://faqomatic.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/1.html

-derek

Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

> I'm more worried about security and wiki-spam...  I'd also like to
> find something that handles FAQs "the best".
>
> -derek
>
> David Grant <david.grant at telus.net> writes:
>
>> I just scanned through the posts about moin moin vs. twiki. Functionally 
>> they are probably both similar. I'm guessing twiki has more plugins 
>> though. Looks-wise I always thought twiki looked a bit messy/noisy but 
>> that can be fixed by anyone who knows HTML and CSS, or perhaps by 
>> installing a new template.
>>
>> The major disadvantage of switching away from twiki, is as Jim and 
>> Karsten were talking about, is that the syntax is different between 
>> almost all wikis and also the links will be all screwed up. Someone said 
>> that we haven't invested in anything wiki-specific, and that's not true. 
>> Jim and others have invested a lot of time adding content, and the 
>> content is twiki-specific.
>>
>> The fact that moin moin is written in python comes up sometimes but it 
>> is a moot point. No one in the gnumed project is interested in 
>> re-writing bits of code for the wiki (I hope). There are so many wiki 
>> projects out there, no need to look at the source code for any of them, 
>> or to modify it. Just find on and use it. If a wiki was written in 
>> COBOL, and if it was the best, then we should use it.
>>
>> -- 
>> David J. Grant
>> http://www.davidgrant.ca:81
>
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