State of the Wiki

SDL Development
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Hi all,
I was just wondering how far along the documentation Wiki is. I know people
have been looking into it (myself included) but is there someone on the SDL
team who’s sorting out the official one at the moment? If there’s anything
live maybe there could be a link to it even if it’s still work-in-progress?
I’m sure if it has information still to be added to it then others would be
glad to contribute in building it from the old info; that is the object of a
Wiki after all ;)–
Nick H
Glastonbury 2003/04 Veteran

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Hi all,
I was just wondering how far along the documentation Wiki is. I know people
have been looking into it (myself included) but is there someone on the SDL
team who’s sorting out the official one at the moment? If there’s anything
live maybe there could be a link to it even if it’s still work-in-progress?
I’m sure if it has information still to be added to it then others would be
glad to contribute in building it from the old info; that is the object of a
Wiki after all :wink:

Still testing various wiki software. Mediawiki requires mysql, won’t
work with any other db, and the the sdl website is based on postgresql.
PHPWiki is easy to get up, but it seems to be undergoing a lot of
changes right now and while it may be great in a month or two, I
wouldn’t start a new one right now. I’m currently testing moinmoin. It
seems to be widely used and stable plus it has multiple document format
extractors and highly customizable security. Anyone have any comments on
moinmoin?

	Bob PendletonOn Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:55, Nick Howes wrote:

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“Bob Pendleton” wrote in message
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wouldn’t start a new one right now. I’m currently testing moinmoin. It
seems to be widely used and stable plus it has multiple document format
extractors and highly customizable security. Anyone have any comments on
moinmoin?

Bob Pendleton

Never heard of moinmoin but it’s a cool name so it warrants a look :slight_smile:

hmm yes looks good.

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“Nick Howes” <n.j.howes at warwick.ac.uk> wrote in message
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wouldn’t start a new one right now. I’m currently testing moinmoin. It
seems to be widely used and stable plus it has multiple document format
extractors and highly customizable security. Anyone have any comments on
moinmoin?

Bob Pendleton

Never heard of moinmoin but it’s a cool name so it warrants a look :slight_smile:

hmm yes looks good.

Seems to run on Python though… dont know how that would work.

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“Nick Howes” <n.j.howes at warwick.ac.uk> wrote in message
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“Bob Pendleton” <@Bob_Pendleton> wrote in message
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wouldn’t start a new one right now. I’m currently testing moinmoin. It
seems to be widely used and stable plus it has multiple document format
extractors and highly customizable security. Anyone have any comments on
moinmoin?

Bob Pendleton

Never heard of moinmoin but it’s a cool name so it warrants a look :slight_smile:

hmm yes looks good.

Seems to run on Python though… dont know how that would work.

Seems to work just fine. Python is easy to install and quite efficient.

I have a test moinmoin running at www.gameprogrammer.com/gpwiki, give it
a try an see what you think of it. I’ll be changing the configuration
and fiddling with it for a while.

So, far moinmoin seems to be the best compromise. It was very easy to
install (I always mess up the apache configuration the first time…)
it has good documentation, it has all the features people want. It seems
to be stable and well supported. And, if you google for moinmoin you can
see that it is widely used.

	Bob Pendleton

		Bob PendletonOn Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:34, Nick Howes wrote:

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I’ve heard a lot of mentions of MoinMoin, but I don’t know anything about it. Is it possible to strip camelCase links from the operation of the wiki? camelCase links don’t solve any problems, yet they cause quite a few.

Bob Pendleton wrote:> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:34, Nick Howes wrote:

“Nick Howes” <n.j.howes at warwick.ac.uk> wrote in message
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“Bob Pendleton” wrote in message
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wouldn’t start a new one right now. I’m currently testing moinmoin. It
seems to be widely used and stable plus it has multiple document format
extractors and highly customizable security. Anyone have any comments on
moinmoin?

Bob Pendleton

Never heard of moinmoin but it’s a cool name so it warrants a look :slight_smile:

hmm yes looks good.

Seems to run on Python though… dont know how that would work.

Seems to work just fine. Python is easy to install and quite efficient.

I have a test moinmoin running at www.gameprogrammer.com/gpwiki, give it
a try an see what you think of it. I’ll be changing the configuration
and fiddling with it for a while.

So, far moinmoin seems to be the best compromise. It was very easy to
install (I always mess up the apache configuration the first time…)
it has good documentation, it has all the features people want. It seems
to be stable and well supported. And, if you google for moinmoin you can
see that it is widely used.

  Bob Pendleton

  	Bob Pendleton

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I’ve heard a lot of mentions of MoinMoin, but I don’t know anything about it. Is it possible to strip camelCase links from the operation of the wiki? camelCase links don’t solve any problems, yet they cause quite a few.

I don’t know if you can strip them, but you can enable the [ this is a
link ] syntax, and that solves half of the problem.

	Bob PendletonOn Tue, 2004-06-29 at 14:43, Tyler Zesiger wrote:

Bob Pendleton wrote:

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:34, Nick Howes wrote:

“Nick Howes” <n.j.howes at warwick.ac.uk> wrote in message
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“Bob Pendleton” <@Bob_Pendleton> wrote in message
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wouldn’t start a new one right now. I’m currently testing moinmoin. It
seems to be widely used and stable plus it has multiple document format
extractors and highly customizable security. Anyone have any comments on
moinmoin?

Bob Pendleton

Never heard of moinmoin but it’s a cool name so it warrants a look :slight_smile:

hmm yes looks good.

Seems to run on Python though… dont know how that would work.

Seems to work just fine. Python is easy to install and quite efficient.

I have a test moinmoin running at www.gameprogrammer.com/gpwiki, give it
a try an see what you think of it. I’ll be changing the configuration
and fiddling with it for a while.

So, far moinmoin seems to be the best compromise. It was very easy to
install (I always mess up the apache configuration the first time…)
it has good documentation, it has all the features people want. It seems
to be stable and well supported. And, if you google for moinmoin you can
see that it is widely used.

  Bob Pendleton

  	Bob Pendleton

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“Bob Pendleton” wrote in message
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“Nick Howes” <n.j.howes at warwick.ac.uk> wrote in message
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“Bob Pendleton” wrote in message
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wouldn’t start a new one right now. I’m currently testing moinmoin.
It

seems to be widely used and stable plus it has multiple document
format

extractors and highly customizable security. Anyone have any
comments on

moinmoin?

Seems to work just fine. Python is easy to install and quite efficient.

that’s alright then :slight_smile: and yes it does look good. i noticed its applet-based
drawing facility, not sure if that would be useful for SDL but still quite
impressive.

I have a test moinmoin running at www.gameprogrammer.com/gpwiki, give it
a try an see what you think of it. I’ll be changing the configuration
and fiddling with it for a while.

i got a page not found when trying this link…> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:34, Nick Howes wrote:

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moinmoin looks really good. let’s hope the exporters work fine.

Nick Howes wrote:>Hi all,

I was just wondering how far along the documentation Wiki is. I know people
have been looking into it (myself included) but is there someone on the SDL
team who’s sorting out the official one at the moment? If there’s anything
live maybe there could be a link to it even if it’s still work-in-progress?
I’m sure if it has information still to be added to it then others would be
glad to contribute in building it from the old info; that is the object of a
Wiki after all :wink:

–
Nick H
Glastonbury 2003/04 Veteran

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