Re: "ocaml_beginners"::[] Wiki dedicated to OCaml

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Kai Kuehne wrote:

> Ok. I think I will register ocamlwiki.org (or .net) for the wiki pages.
> Which wiki software do you prefer?

I don't have any clear preference. It also depends how much time you can
afford. http://www.wikimatrix.org/ is a good starting point.

>From my experience:

* Mediawiki is badly programmed and slow. It has a huge user base.
Every 3 months or so there is a new incompatible release, which is kind
of annoying. They is some support for PHP extensions, although anything
fancy has a good chance of breaking with the next release.

* Jotspot was an interesting hosted commercial wiki for users who need
wysiwyg and admins who don't have much time. They were acquired by Google
and since then they dropped support... I don't know if you can still open
a new wiki anyway. Although it was closed-source, you could in theory
write scripts that provide fancy extensions. In practice this was very
difficult because of very poor documentation and numerous bugs.

* PBwiki is another commercial wiki which seems to follow the steps of
Jotspot. I wouldn't use it either for a big and nice OCaml wiki (there is
one already by the way: http://ocaml.pbwiki.com)

* Cocanwiki was written in OCaml. It works remarkably well. The
installation process was a bit difficult. Other than
that, it has all the minimal features one can expect from a wiki and no
my-browser-only buggy javascript features. Since it was written in OCaml,
it should be fairly simple to extend if needed.

That's all I know...

Martin

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<martin_jambon...> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Kai Kuehne wrote:
>
> > Ok. I think I will register ocamlwiki.org (or .net) for the wiki
pages.
> > Which wiki software do you prefer?
>
> I don't have any clear preference. It also depends how much time you can
> afford. http://www.wikimatrix.org/ is a good starting point.
>
> From my experience:
>
> * Mediawiki is badly programmed and slow. It has a huge user base.
> Every 3 months or so there is a new incompatible release, which is kind
>; of annoying. They is some support for PHP extensions, although anything
> fancy has a good chance of breaking with the next release.
>
> * Jotspot was an interesting hosted commercial wiki for users who need
>; wysiwyg and admins who don't have much time. They were acquired by
Google
> and since then they dropped support... I don't know if you can still
open
> a new wiki anyway. Although it was closed-source, you could in theory
> write scripts that provide fancy extensions. In practice this was very
>; difficult because of very poor documentation and numerous bugs.
>
> * PBwiki is another commercial wiki which seems to follow the steps of
> Jotspot. I wouldn't use it either for a big and nice OCaml wiki
(there is
> one already by the way: http://ocaml.pbwiki.com)
>;
> * Cocanwiki was written in OCaml. It works remarkably well. The
> installation process was a bit difficult. Other than
>; that, it has all the minimal features one can expect from a wiki and no
> my-browser-only buggy javascript features. Since it was written in
OCaml,
> it should be fairly simple to extend if needed.
>
> That's all I know...

As far as I am familiar with different Wiki engines, the user
interface of Cocanwiki is not very friendly or convenient when
compared with other wikis.

The Wiki I like most is MoinMoin. One of its positive sides is ease
of installation, large userbase, powerful features. So, I would
recommend using MoinMoin.

With best regards,
Victor Anyakin

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