Dealing with wikis
In this my new home in the Paradise I decided to build my homepage. I was trying to do it some time ago (actually three years ago, when I began Linuxbeat with Bille), but I nerver had time to do it.
I saw Jacobo Tarrío’s home page, he took Mediawiki, the Wikipedia engine, and customized it. “It was perfect”, I thought, “I can translate my math expressions with LaTeX”.
I tried to copy the idea, but I couldn’t do it. I have no php knowledgement nor time to waste. I could make my own web writing the html, but I have no sftp connection to the server when I am at the Campus. I was too looking for an easy way to create web pages to my neighbour Belén, to avoid her using the stinky frontpage :-P.
So I began to look for another wiki engines. I started with this interesting article about comparison of wiki engines in the Wikipedia. I tried with phpWiki but I have some problems with my hosting (I’m not the root). Then I tested MoinMoin, I liked it because it didn’t need a database, but it was to big to my disk quota and I couldn’t overcome some configuration problems.
Finally I found WikkaWiki, and I saw opened Heaven: small, easy to install and use, good security, customizable by CSS and very important XHML 1.0 compliant. Then I got it. You can verify it at Tsao in the Paradise home page (in spanish).
November 1st, 2005 at 3:09 am
Stinky CamelNotation is the worst thing in WikkaWiki
If you want to have a clear and sweet personal web site with a wiki, you should have a wiki system without CamelNotation… MediaWiki maybe :-DDD “You want the fame, but the the fame is expensive…” XDDDDDD
November 2nd, 2005 at 11:49 pm
Hey, CamelNotation is the origin of wikis
I don’t want the fame, I wanna remain annonimous
November 6th, 2005 at 4:13 pm
> Stinky CamelNotation
Please note that CamelCase linking is *optional* on WikkaWiki.
You can use markup such as [[page]] or [[page This is my new page]] etc. to create links in a wiki page.
http://wikka.jsnx.com/AddingLinks
http://wikka.jsnx.com/WikkaInAction#hn_2._Adding_links
As for a “clear and sweet personal web site with a wiki” you might want to check out this: http://dartar.free.fr
November 6th, 2005 at 9:20 pm
=-O
I’ld need months to learn enough to have a site like yours O:-)
November 10th, 2005 at 8:44 pm
DarTar: WAAAAAAAOOOOO! Im very impressed with your website, maybe I must to try these wiki ;). Thanks for the reference.
November 20th, 2005 at 7:43 pm
tsao,
you just need to learn some silly wiki formatting rules
you kidding
Benji,
re: using a wiki as a backend for a website, you might want to read this:
http://wikka.jsnx.com/InvisibleWiki/