>>>> "ESP" == Edward S Peschko
<esp5(a)pge.com> writes:
ESP> I want to make a wiki, but I want to enforce some constraints
ESP> on it.. First, I want the wiki to be in a generic hierarchy
ESP> such that the hierarchy follows certaion
ESP> administrator-defined rules - ie:
Hey, we have the same initials. Heh. I think I used to be
esp-something at
pge.com, too.
Anyways, I think the traditional wiki response to this is that you let
your user community enforce the site architecture, rather than trying
to force that into the underlying software.
Stuff that comes in that doesn't fit in the hierarchy gets moved
around to the right places by people who care about the hierarchy. As
new users become more accustomed to the organizational norms on the
wiki, they add stuff in the right place in the first place.
You might want to read up more on wiki theory at MeatBall wiki,
Community Wiki, or at Ward's Wiki:
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MeatballWiki
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/community
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
ESP> ( ps - what's the difference between wiki and its various
ESP> clones particularly phpwiki? Is there a wiki coded in perl?
ESP> )
Wiki is a technique, not a piece of software. The name is also
sometimes applied to a Web site using the wiki technique ("This is a
wiki about...") and also sometimes applied to Ward's Wiki, which was
the first wiki.
This list is probably not the best place to compare and contrast
different Wiki engines. There's a list of engines here:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines
MediaWiki -- the wiki engine developed for Wikipedia -- is used for
most (all?) Wikimedia projects as well as others, which see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sites_using_MediaWiki
Its feature set is generally considered very, very good for creating
content-over-community sites:
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?ContentOverCommunity
...particularly in the way that discussion pages are separated from
content pages.
Good luck.
~ESP
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