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

  • From: Kasper Sandberg <redeeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:09:20 +0200

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
> 

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