[nzlug] [OT] Which Wiki?

[Rik Wade]

On 18/02/2008, at 7:23 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:

> "Andrew Errington" <a.errington at lancaster.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> I have been asked what Wiki software I would recommend for a small
>> non-profit organisation.  Unfortunately I don't actually know much
>> about Wikis, other than Wikipedia uses MediaWiki which doesn't seem
>> too bad.
>
> If they are software developers, ikiwiki and their VCS.
> If they are not, Mediawiki.

I've been running MediaWiki on a reasonably busy public site for a  
few years and can vouch for the fact that:
- it is well maintained, supported, and documented
- upgrades are relatively simple
- administration, backups etc. are simple using your usual tools for  
the Wiki system, configuration and images, and a MySQL database dump  
for the content

Yes, it's written in PHP, which tends to make me nervous, but it  
appears to be _well_ written in PHP.
--
rik