[Semi-OT] Which wiki do you like?

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:05 pm

bort wrote: The way they phrase this is that SF always has had this bug.
I guess if you trust your project members, it wouldn't be a huge problem..

.. any other registered developer of any registered project

Unless I am misreading this.. anyone who has a registered SF account can read the config files, database password, session data, etc.

So, it's more then a issue of trusting members of the project; it's trusting all SF users.

bort · Post by **bort** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:11 pm

Agreed.
Perhaps then it should be embedded onto another project or page..

Rednaxela · Post by **Rednaxela** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:01 pm

cavesomething wrote:maybe
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_ ... eforge.net is a more suitable approach

I personally think that might be a good approach to use.

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:08 pm

Rednaxela wrote:
cavesomething wrote:maybe
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_ ... eforge.net is a more suitable approach
I personally think that might be a good approach to use.

Even with the concern brought up here?

http://www.metalforge.net/cfmb/viewtopi ... =8848#8846

Rednaxela · Post by **Rednaxela** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:29 pm

hmmm... true.

techolous · Post by **techolous** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:02 pm

I prefer mediawiki, except for its resource usage. IMO, it is the easiest to work with. Though i don't know if anyone that can, is willing to host it atm.

As for the sourceforge.net issue, I believe its because the webserver runs as only one user. Though its better than nothing, I think trying to fix the current wiki is a better solution.

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:15 am

techolous wrote: I think trying to fix the current wiki is a better solution.

Okay, a little bit of a topic switch...

What needs to be improved or fixed with the current wiki?

I've noticed that the time stamps are not or were not working.

What else?

Rednaxela · Post by **Rednaxela** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:35 am

IMHO switching to something like mediawiki or twiki would be a better option than trying to fix the existing wiki. But the main things that need fixing in the current wiki IMO are:

-The user interface is not very usable, and IMHO is rather ugly (not colors and such, but the whole layout of everything)
-There's no sort of revision tracking in sight, which IMO is essencial for any sort of wiki
-It's markup is rather strange and not easy to use

IMHO, these issues are much easier to solve by useing a different wiki than by trying to 'fix' the existing one.

If nobody here is willing to host a wiki, I think an ideal option would be Wikicities, which is a free wiki hosting service using mediawiki. For a good example of what a wiki on it looks like: here

cavesomething · Post by **cavesomething** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:14 am

wikicities may well be a better idea than running an another unusable zope-like wiki.

I don't know if the text-ads will bother anyone though, also there does seem to be a large proportion of irritiating 13 year-olds (to the extent that there is even a runescape wiki there already)

bort · Post by **bort** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 9:19 pm

Perhaps the CF wiki can be repurposed if some people would join together.
I'm willing to work or attempt to fix the existing wiki, but only if three other people commit to that.
I'm not one to do all the work by myself, and then have it trrampled.
Its either you switch wikis, or a group project is done to try to salvage the existing one.