[LINK] Wiki software for personal use

[Antony Barry]

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Thinking it might be useful to know a bit more about Wikis as I've  
been invited to add information to one I looked around quickly and  
found pmwiki <http://www.pmwiki.org/> which is GPL, PHP based and  
seems to have an active user community.

It has a search engine built in, a capability to support a manual  
subject index with "see" and "see also" references (I am a librarian  
after all), automatic generation of site maps, segmentation of the  
site into different "groups" with localised appearance and navigation  
and lots of other things I've found a pest to do manually. The  
appearance of the pages in each group is based on css files and  
templates. It looks like you can still create bad code by messing  
these up.

It was trivial to install and seemed very easy to use. I'm  
contemplating using it to support my own site but have reservations  
as I've kept to the philosophy of writing in html and css. (Note I  
don't update often and some of my stuff was written as far back as  
html0.9 when people though <blink> was great and most versions since).

I then looked around for wiki standards and found a few such as  
creole <http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole0.1>, and a standards  
group <http://www.wikisym.org/> which appeared to be moribund.

pmwiki did not match anything in the way of the standards that I  
could find but it's obviously very early days.

Does anybody have experience/comments on using a wiki to support a  
personal site? Also comments on pmwiki?

Tony


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