Hi Brett
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Tony Langdon < vk3jed@gmail.com > wrote: Can anyone recommend a Wiki package that can be run on a Linux host (LAMP or otherwise)? I might have a project which requires a wiki.
Consider what the surrounding environment needs to look like. Is it for internal use in a group/company, will you need to regularly add users, is it public and people need to sign up (and then be enabled by you or not). Depending on those things, your choice will differ - otherwise maintaining becomes a pest.
I did some testing of basically every wiki software available for debian a while back. My favourite is PMwiki - http://www.pmwiki.org/
It's quite simple to install and configure. Quite a large selection of 'cookbooks' (user submitted extensions). Still undergoing constant development. I use this personally.
We used PMwiki for a while in a few spots, and had to get rid of it. Indeed it's very nice with its extensions, but the user management is atrocious and because it's file based it's more difficult to scale (we have a resilient/redundant infrastructure). We got hideously stuck at quite a bit of expense (time wastage). Inside my company we now use the wiki that Redmine has per project/client which is very handy, as Redmine takes care of the permissions and client can edit stuff of their own (something I didn't expect them to do, but they do!) I contributed some patches to the wordpress Wiki plugin to make it behave decently, and now it's pretty usable. Cheers, Arjen. -- Exec.Director @ Open Query (http://openquery.com) MySQL services Sane business strategy explorations at http://Upstarta.biz Personal blog at http://lentz.com.au/blog/