[nzlug] [OT] Which Wiki?

[Steve Holdoway]

I too run mediawiki, and it was the bane of my life until I found SpamBlackList. Now I don't get cr*p all over it, although I am running a couple of jobs an hour to keep it so.

This entry is quite helpful: http://wiki.evernex.com/index.php?title=Blocking_Spam_in_Mediawiki

Steve

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:46:14 +1300
Rik Wade <rik at rikwade.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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