[D-community-discuss] choosing the right CMS

[Luk Claes]

Chris Lale wrote:
> Hello Holger
> 
> Holger Levsen wrote:

> MediaWiki does automatic notification of changes.

Ikiwiki has so called commit mails

> Perhaps it would be possible to run a separate ikiwiki for each language
> and have inter-wiki links? (This is an approach used by MediaWiki.)
> 
>> I also want to know what you think, why ikiwiki is a bad choice and
>> mediawiki (or moinmoin) is better.
> 
> I think the choice of wiki software depends on the _purpose_ of the wiki.
> 
> If the purpose is to develop software, MediaWiki
> * does not link to CVS or SVN
> This might be a disadvantage.
> 
> If the purpose is to develop documentation, MediaWiki has these useful
> features:
> * produces  TOC  automatically.

toc plugin

> * produces  optional numbered headings automatically.

I'm not sure what advantage this brings...

> * No need for CamelCase when creating links.

Doesn't have to be CamelCase...

> * Allows namespaces.

What do you mean by this?

> * Allows links to individual section, not just pages.

Easily done in eg html

> * Allows transclusion of atomic nodes - could be a single word or a
> whole section - into pages.

inline plugin

> * Allows inclusion of graphics eg screenshots.

Possible without any problem.

> * Allows subpages

Without any limit...

> * Allows classification of pages into categories so that you can have
> category views (eg for level of difficulty, particular distribution,
> type of installation (eg desktop, mail server, webserver), etc.

Implemented by using tags

> * has good internal search (title and text).

HyperEstreier search engine

> It also has features that make it accessible and easier to manage a
> large wiki:
> * Editor toolbar

Not sure :-)

> * anti-spam features and spam blacklisting

Definitely some anti-spam features, though not advanced

> * multilanguage support

linguas plugin

Stripped some of above features as they were already mentioned/discussed before.

Cheers

Luk

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