[dokuwiki] Selecting a Wiki engine...

  • From: "Oliver Betz" <list_ob@xxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:52:03 +0200

Hi All,

running several (broken) PhpWiki based wikis, I need to switch to a 
better maintained Wiki engine soon. At the moment, I'm mainly 
comparing DokuWiki and PmWiki.

After I have been playing a bit with both, it would be interesting to 
get more information especially about the non-abvious characteristics 
and strengths (or weaknesses).

For example about data storage: While PmWiki stores page data, 
metadata and old revisions in the same file, DokuWiki uses separate 
files. I would like to learn more about the reasons behind and the 
(dis-) advantages.

Another important question is long term availability. If Andi can't 
continue DokuWiki development some day, are there other (potential) 
core developers?

As I'm no PHP programmer (I'm doing low-level embedded stuff in 
"plain C"), I depend on other people maintaining the Wiki software if 
issues (security, PHP version problems...) arise some day.

Thanks in advance,

Oliver
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