[GLLUG] Wiki Software

Charles Ulrich charles at bityard.net
Sat Apr 26 01:50:28 EDT 2008


On this topic, I just listened to the FLOSS Weekly podcast where they
interviewed Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki and other cool
things like Agile Programming. If you have an hour to kill, it's
definitely worth a listen.

 http://twit.tv/floss27

Charles

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:
> I've been playing around with the idea of a wiki to manage role playing
>  preparation.  I've used Media Wiki, CVSTrac's wiki, and the wiki in
>  FogBugz.  None of them were 100% of what I wanted for a gaming wiki that
>  wasn't connected to a development project.
>
>  On a whim I installed TWiki.  An earlier experience with it hadn't gone
>  well, but I always blamed that on a buggy packaging in OpenBSD.
>
>  The tool turned out to be pretty cool.  It now includes a WYSIWYG editor
>  that seems to work as advertised.  It also has good performance, much
>  better than I got from Media Wiki.  As a bonus, it's pretty low key on
>  resource usage, storing all of the pages as files on the file system,
>  rather than needing a database.
>
>  So if you're looking for a wiki, take a look at the latest release of
>  TWiki.  And BTW, I'm contemplating presenting on the use of a Wiki for
>  role playing organization next year at Penguicon.  It's the perfect
>  nexus of geekdom.
>
>  Clay
>  _______________________________________________
>  linux-user mailing list
>  linux-user at egr.msu.edu
>  http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user
>


More information about the linux-user mailing list