"Wiki"

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

I recently came across something which you might find interesting. A 'Wiki'
is a website which the readers can write on - every page has an 'Edit' link
at the bottom, so anyone can update content or add pages. It makes an ideal
Intranet server.

There are lots of implementations, but I like this one in particular:

http://www.usemod.com/    and click on 'Usemod Wiki'

It's absolutely trivial to install, just a single Perl script (wiki.pl)
which you copy into your cgi-bin directory. You then edit one variable to
point to a data directory, and create that directory with the right
permissions so that the cgi can write to it (typically 'chown www' or
'chown nobody' depending on what uid your webserver is running as). Then
point your browser at http://your.host/cgi-bin/wiki.pl and away you go.

Strangely, for a website where absolutely anyone can make changes, they seem
to work in the outside world and very rarely get vandalised. See
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiErase

Personally, I'd suggest you either:
- keep it wrapped inside your network (.htaccess or private IPs); or
- use it as just a discussion forum; or
- turn on password controls (Usemod provides these for both administrative
  functions and page edits; it also keeps previous versions of pages up to
  a time limit, so you can rollback destructive changes)

Other nice features are a built-in search capability, and a "RecentChanges"
link which lets you see at a glance which pages have been updated.

Regards,

Brian.

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