{"id":62,"date":"2006-10-26T15:55:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T14:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/2006\/10\/26\/wikis-wikis-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T14:55:45","slug":"wikis-wikis-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Wikis, Wikis Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things I did when I arrived at my current job was to whack a copy of mediawiki on one of my servers so that I somewhere to write ad-hoc documentation. As time has passed we have built up quite a few docs and had to lock down the wiki as some of the documents are externally viewable.<\/p>\n<p>It has become apparant that we could do with moving to a wiki that is more suited to our current usage.\u00c2\u00a0 So my list of wiki requirements is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be able to re-use apache authentication since we already have working mod_auth_pam setups talking to central LDAP.<\/li>\n<li>Different parts of the wiki editable\/viewable by different users.<\/li>\n<li>Pages can be public or only viewable by logged in users.<\/li>\n<li>Able to use multiple different auth mechanisms concurrently: e.g Apache,PAM,wiki-login<\/li>\n<li>Themes\/stylesheets for different sections of the wiki<\/li>\n<li>File upload\/attachments. I don&#8217;t want people to have to ftp documents and link to them manually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far the contenders are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midgard-project.org\/\">Midgard<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de\/\">MoinMoin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twiki.org\/\">TWiki<\/a>. I&#8217;m leaning towards Moin because it&#8217;s written in Python. What I&#8217;d really like to hear is some comments from people you have similare requirements. What wiki did you go with and what were your experiences?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first things I did when I arrived at my current job was to whack a copy of mediawiki on one of my servers so that I somewhere to write ad-hoc documentation. As time has passed we have built up quite a few docs and had to lock down the wiki as some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=62\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wikis, Wikis Everywhere<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}