[dokuwiki] Re: Selecting a Wiki engine...

  • From: "Oliver Betz" <list_ob@xxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:21:51 +0200

Simon Heimlicher wrote:

> If you need a quick and dirty way to password protect some pages of the 
> wiki, or need really complex tables, albeit with an incredibly stupid 
> syntax, then use PmWiki.
> 
> On the other hand, if you need a wiki that has
> - much more features to protect a page

PmWiki seems to have now a very flexible protection (AuthUser), 
identity based (also with groups) and/or password based. So your 
problems (enter password any time you want to edit something) 
shouldn't exist anymore. I didn't try it yet, so I can't say whether 
it works or how useable it is.

> - much cleaner syntax

of the Wiki markup? Doesn't seem that different:

''Emphasize'' and '''strongly''' is not that intuitive as **bold** 
and //italic//, but bold/italic isn't the right wording, anyway, is 
it?

'^superscripts^' is not worse than <sub>subscript</sub>.

Maybe I'm simply not that sensible in this respect.

> - multi-level hiearchy

This depends on the structure of the content. I prefer categories, 
but there might be applications where a deeper nesting is needed.

> - fool-proof way of uploading files

Didn't try this - where are the pitfalls?

Oliver
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