Comments on: How To Choose A Wiki

By: dartar

dartar — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 14:16:39 +0000

I’d love for a wiki engine to support tagging of pages

As for implementing tags in a wiki, take a look at this discussion page: Wikka and folksonomy

how about generating nice printed pages without endless css modifications

Wikka also features CSS-driven print page versions, or am I missing your point?

By: tom

tom — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 22:36:44 +0000

I tried that and liked it.. But as far as I’m concerned, peanut butter wiki absolutely rocks…

By: watfordpete

watfordpete — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:14:29 +0000

I’ve been using Schtuff with some students. You can make pretty pages, you can give highly granulated permissions to users, each of whom ahs their own space too. I like it http://www.schtuff.com

By: tom

tom — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:37:28 +0000

I agree. Most wikis, when they start being cared for could potentially be turned into books, with indices and contents pages. I know they are meant to be “networks” rather than streams of information (books), but we all think and know books, it wouldn’t be that big a leap.

By: jspad

jspad — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:48:25 +0000

Your list is fairly comprehensive — and starts with my personal pet peeve, the swear-it-has-to-be-intentional ugliness factor.

That said, I’d love for a wiki engine to support tagging of pages — to do for articles what Flickr does for photos or del.icio.us does for bookmarked links. An extra bonus would be tag-specific RSS feeds.

If I’m going to be crazy, how about generating nice printed pages without endless css modifications, possibly even as PDF files?