{"id":149,"date":"2004-11-12T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/index.php\/mission-choose-a-wiki-accomplished\/"},"modified":"2004-11-12T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T18:30:00","slug":"mission-choose-a-wiki-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/12\/mission-choose-a-wiki-accomplished\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission &#8220;Choose a Wiki&#8221;: Accomplished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAs mentioned previously, I finally decided to learn more about and choose a Wiki.  It didn&#8217;t take long to figure out that <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?WikiChoicetree\">C2<\/a> was the best site for comparisons.  After reading that site and narrowing it down a bit, it came down to three.\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twiki.org\/\">Twiki<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wikipedia.sourceforge.net\/\">MediaWiki<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmwiki.org\/\">PmWiki<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\nThe features I needed for my purposes were;\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to password protect pages and groups of pages easily.<\/li>\n<li>File uploads<\/li>\n<li>User registration<\/li>\n<li>RSS feeds<\/li>\n<li>Open Source<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAside from that, I really only needed the standard Wiki features, everything editable, simple markup etc. etc.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe first Wiki I installed was (as I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcusvorwaller.com\/weblog\/archives\/000168.html\">mentioned<\/a> before) <strong>MediaWiki<\/strong>.   The install was simple, and it&#8217;s pretty obvious it can handle large sites.  It doesn&#8217;t come with RSS feeds and I just wasn&#8217;t impressed with the way it handles uploads and user registration. Before you write MediaWiki off, I have to say I probably didn&#8217;t give this Wiki a full fair shot.  I didn&#8217;t like the default template and I couldn&#8217;t find an online user community with plugins and support and that turned me off from it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNext was <strong>Twiki<\/strong>.  This is far and away the Wiki with the most features.  It supports uploads (better than any of the others), advanced plugins, it has a great community built around it and is used by some huge companies (Disney for example).  It&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcusvorwaller.com\/weblog\/archives\/000169.html\">hard to install<\/a>.  I got it up and running in one evening, but getting it running right was much more difficult.  Even after I got it running right, password protecting a section of my site was a challenge and getting sessions to work was yet another challenge.  I could tell that theming the site was going to be another challenge.  I&#8217;m not one to run away from a challenge, but after having my share of them and spending a week and a half setting the thing up, it was just too much.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>The decision: PmWiki<\/strong>.  PmWiki was the easiest to install.  I never had to switch to root or create a database or even touch the command line.  It supports uploads (not the best support, but support), it&#8217;s easily themable, it&#8217;s super fast, easy to understand, easy to password protect portions of the site, yet at the same time powerful. It comes with RSS support, a good community, good plugins and add ons and it feels very stable and solid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMy recommendation for a general purpose, intranet or group Wiki is PmWiki.  My recommendation to  PmWiki is to  revamp your website.  it&#8217;s way too plain and boring (I&#8217;m not against simple but this is too much&#8230;) and was the reason I tried PmWiki last.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>A Wiki I may use for quick, personal sites is the great looking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instiki.org\/show\/HomePage\">Instiki<\/a>. I&#8217;m looking forward to file attachments for this one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhere&#8217;s the wiki?  It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/wiki\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned previously, I finally decided to learn more about and choose a Wiki. It didn&#8217;t take long to figure out that C2 was the best site for comparisons. After reading that site and narrowing it down a bit, it came down to three. 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