Re: "Wiki"

[Hervey Allen <hervey at nsrc.org>]

I started playing around with this.

Interesting how text is formatted.

=
==
etc defines heading levels.
*
*
for an unordered list.

http://name.domain is linked,
etc.

If your users are not html-savvy they can use text-based formatting and
get html results.

Thanks Brian.

- Hervey

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:42:09 +0000
Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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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