On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:52 +0200, Oliver Betz wrote: > 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. im not much involved with dokuwiki, however should Andi step back, i would fix up security issues when they arise, and possibly moderate feature development, and also update to support new php releases. i would do this as i use dokuwiki myself > > Thanks in advance, > > Oliver > -- > Oliver Betz, Muenchen > -- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist