[pmwiki-users] Selecting a Wiki engine...

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On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:47:31 +0200
"Oliver Betz" <list_ob at gmx.net> wrote:

> > While I'm at it, scanning Dokuwiki main features, the only
> > real difference I see (of existing DokuWiki features) is
> > section editing:

I use both: 

PMWiki: 
* More flexible in some area: page variables, pagelist
* Very active mailing list with a lot of help. Thanks guys,
I would not be able to use PMWiki, without it.
* Better skinning.
* PM is extremely responsive.
* Poor documentation: this is more due to the search than the
website, but it's very hard to find what I need. [do a search on
attr to find out to set the page attributes: 365 pages,
including almost all receipes...]

Dokuwiki:
* Much easier to setup and use.
* Much better search. The search actually works and shows
the context, so you can quickly find what you are looking for.
* Stores the text files as straight ASCII. The files are
literally, notes01.txt or abc.txt that can be edited by any
ASCII editor [unix/M$].
* Nicer look out of the box.
* Simple ACL that works out-of-box. 
* Not as flexible as PMwiki.

BTW: I would use PMwiki for both projects, if I could do a
scroll for a block.

%define=box block bgcolor=#FFFFCC border="2px dotted grey width:650px overflow:auto%"

It does not work neither in Opera, Firefox or IE 6

BTW: These are personal opinions. And I still want to send my
thanks to Patrick for Pmwiki, and to Andreas for Dokuwiki.

> 
> Look also at their search results and revision diffs, user 
> management, pagename completion and some more.
> 
> And I'm not sure whether I like their page data storage more.
> 
> > http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:section_editing
> > 
> > If there's no way to edit a whole page instead, I'd hate
> > that, though
> 
> Dokuwiki offers both, page editing at the bottom of the page.
> 
> Oliver


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