On 10/01/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was thinking that, then I saw how wikis were
actually being used.
MediaWiki is a lardarse - power of a tank and durability of a tank,
with handling of a tank and mileage of a tank - with silly
requirements compared to e.g. my home work intranet wiki, which has
ten users and is MoinMoin because that uses flat files rather than
MySQL. I wouldn't object to MediaWiki, but I can see a lot to say for
the viewpoint that it would be overkill.
Oh, absolutely; MediaWiki is completely inappropriate for a personal
use wiki, or a wiki for a very small group where it's *known* that
scaling to meet the needs of several thousand/million users will never
be needed.
Where it is *extremely* powerful, is when there *are* two or three
million users reading, editing, moving, watching pages.
Rob Church