wiki options

[Ben Finney]

On 15-Oct-2006, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I wonder if anyone here can help me choose a wiki engine?

You've looked at wikimatrix.org. I notice they don't list Joey Hess's
ikiwiki:

    ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts wiki pages into html pages
    suitable for publishing on a website. Unlike many wikis, ikiwiki
    does not have its own ad-hoc means of storing page history, and
    instead uses a revision control system such as Subversion.

    <URL:http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net/>

I'd add ikiwiki to wikimatrix.org, but they require registration; I'm
not that interested.

> * I want a namespace [...]

I don't really know what these would look like, and couldn't get
Google to give me a good answer on which wikis would have them.

> * Non-PHP would be desirable on security grounds.

ikiwiki is written in Perl.

> * Hosted on sarge for now. Packaged not essential.

The compiled wiki is served as static HTML files. ikiwiki is packaged
for etch, you could probably just re-build it for sarge.

> * I'm used to TWiki's markup (from my day job) but it looks like
> overkill; nothing else seems identical. Markdown seems to be the
> only common denominator, so support for that would be useful.

Joey Hess likes Markdown, so I know it supports that.

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