From Blogware to Wiki
No. I am not changing from blogs to WiKi. This page stays. So are the rest of my blogs. They are my precious babies, each operating/surviving with its own conscious mind..I didn't say "from blogging to WiKi." Rather, I said, "blogware". There is a difference there.
To cut that short, I have been looking for an appropriate Wiki engine for my website.
How that whole idea began was that I had been trying to study for job interviews. I haven't get my resume quite together yet. But I do have to multitasking quite a lot (work, friends, parents, job hunting, study for interview, and my precious never ending development website) to get everything going at the same time.
Then I realized, how little did I know about WiKi, and how difficult it is to choose the right one!
I once wrote a blog about choosing a blogware for my site. I read reviews, installed, played with, and uninstalled WordPress, b2, b2evolution, plog, TextPattern, Serendipity, and Nucleus. I finally settled with WordPress. No more hunting around. It's just too time and energy consuming.. Actually I much prefer plog and TextPattern, but I had quite some problems with plog's template installation and uninstallation because I do not have root privilege.. Long story.
I thought I had learned my lesson. Unfortunately, I didn't.
Wiki opened up another big knowledge hole in me. I got sucked in almost immediately,, digging and poking at different choices, looking for reviews and comparisons websites. What I found was:
A list of Wiki Engines, equivalent to 17 printed pages!
This sounds more dreadful than the experience of looking for a blogware!
So far I have tried DokuWiki. It has a very simple and nice interface, WYSIWYG for editing, backtrack, revision history, doesn't require a database. Only problem I have so far is making it to run under Linux when I do not have root privilege. Once again, I am stuck.
I am not going to list all the wikis that I am going to try this time. I have a few more in mind. Perhaps I will write a little review and comparison of the ones I try next time. =)
To be continued...
posted by Sandy @ 1/31/2005 01:08:00 PM
2 Comments:
There is no need to have a root account for DokuWiki. Just make sure the websserver can write to the neccessary places (datadir et al). If you can't chown them to the webserver user just chmod them to worldwriteble.
Somehow I managed to make it work at the end. I msut have set the unmask setting wrong by accident. =)
Problem solved. Now if DokuWiki has better ACL features, I would be perfectly happy then.
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