On Apr 23, 2006, at 16:46, Victor Boctor wrote:
> The Wiki option looks like the easier approach and can
get us started
> sooner. If we go with this approach, then I would like
to choose
> an engine
> with the following features:
>
> 1. ACL/Permissions + ability to assigned permissions to
user groups.
> 2. Ability for readers to supply comments.
> 3. Powerful general Wiki features and standards
compliance.
> 4. Preferably developed in PHP.
> 5. Ability to export offline snapshots, ideally with
the notes.
> Offline
> formats include HTML or PDF.
> 6. Support for Docbook would be great.
> 7. Anti-Spam features, whether by requiring users to
register or
> ideally by
> using a captcha and spam black lists.
> 8. Nice look and feel.
> 9. Ease of fine tuning and extensions.
I haven't worked with Docbook, but I'm quite partial to
wikis, and am
very fond of the MediaWiki engine. I find the syntax easy to
learn
and powerful, and, unlike most other wikis, MediaWiki
doesn't turn
WikiWords into links, thank goodness. I always found that
ridiculous:
Just because I write "MediaWiki" doesn't mean I
want that turned into
a link everywhere. In MediaWiki, as you may know, you use
[[brackets]] to indicate what you want linked, which I like.
In any
case, thanks to the Wikipedia, many people will be familiar
with this
syntax.
I don't know if MediaWiki meets all your requirements.
Certainly I
find the look and feel to be among the best (and you can
write your
own CSS and/or skins if you want), and you can write your
own
extensions easily, and it has optional Captcha support (you
can see
it in action by editing a page at hrwiki.org), and you can
force
people to register before they can post, and it uses PHP
& MySQL.
Each page has a Talk page where things can be discussed, but
I'm not
sure if there's a way to get comments at the bottom of
every page,
for example. Maybe you can write an extension for that, or
maybe one
already exists. It's relatively easy to install if you want
to try it
out.
I remember seeing a different wiki engine geared
specifically to
manuals, but I don't remember what it was called.
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