[Pmwiki-users] How best to develop a wiki farm

[John Rankin]

We are starting to make a way to develop a collection of related 
wikis (a farm as a collection of fields), all sharing the same 
code and core pages, but able to act independently. Some examples 
of possible use:
- different and independent parts of the same organisation
- different languages in different wiki fields
- different subject areas, each requiring multiple groups

There is a preliminary specification here:
http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Development/WikiFarm

The current idea is that the directory structure might look 
like this:
pmwiki/
    pmwiki.php
    scripts/
    wikilib.d/
    pub/
    local/
    wiki.d/    #maybe, maybe not
    uploads/   #maybe, maybe not
    field.a/
        wiki.d/
        pub/
        local/
        uploads/

and so on.

There are some markup issues (referring to a page in another field)
And implementation options.

We plan to use the URL to work out which field to visit, eg:
http://wiki.lotr.net.nz/
http://wiki.lotr.net.nz/fotr 
http://wiki.lotr.net.nz/tt 
http://wiki.lotr.net.nz/rotk
http://wiki.lotr.net.nz/gollumsushi

If others think this is a good idea, or have suggestions,
comments will be very welcome, either on the page or to
the list.

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JR
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John Rankin