[Israel.pm] Perl-IL Wiki - Take II

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all!

With Gabor's help, we're going to direct http://wiki.perl.org.il/ to eskimo (= 
iglu.org.il), and set up a wiki there.

Now, the question is: which Wiki implementation?

Some potential candidates:

1. MediaWiki - http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/ - a very good wiki 
implementation, very powerful, and easy to setup, etc. Has excellent support 
for internationalization. Only downside as far as we're concerned is that 
it's written in PHP. 

2. Oddmuse - http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/wiki - a much improved fork of 
UseModWiki. Written in Perl and easy to set up, but not as powerful as 
MediaWiki. Also doesn't use a database, so may not scale as well. (not that 
it is of a concern to us).

3. Kwiki - kwiki is nice and modular but its syntax is incredibly lame. It is 
possible to write alternate syntax engines, but none was written for 
MediaWiki yet.[1] Another problem is that getting it to run on Debian Woody 
would be painful, and we'll have to wait until we upgrade eskimo to Sarge.

I am leaning towards MediaWiki, but naturally accept other opinions. In 
regards to using a PHP app makes us Perl-Mongers look bad, you may wish to 
refer to:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/12/advocacy.html

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

[1] - hobbs from Freenode has written a MediaWiki-to-HTML converter in Perl. 
The only problem with it is that its' susceptible to many XSS attacks, and so 
will require some work. I volunteered to help, and others who are interested 
may also do that.

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