Re: Gnome Live Wiki Day (and other wiki-ish ideas)?

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com> wrote:
> > I do, however, agree with Joachim that MoinMoin is
> not the best wiki
> > choice. MediaWiki would be so much better.
> >
> 
> This is what I originally thought until I started
> looking into future
> possibilites and playing with the document
> management system I described in
> my previous email. While mediawiki (arguably) looks
> nicer it has the
> following shortcomings
> 1) No webservices interface
> 2) No way to export to docbook or any other format.
> Mediawikis internal
> storage format is not xml and is not easly converted
> to something useful via
> a xslt.
> 3) Does not store data as flat files like moin. This
> may (in combination
> with 1) make it harder to do automated release
> scripts for modules

Those are all excellent reasons.
Any chance we can set a preference or tweak the script
to allow [[links]]? 
I think it's fair to say that the Wikipedia wiki
syntax (originally UseModWiki syntax) is the dominant
one in the wiki world. It would be nice if we
supported it.




	
	
		
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