Unexpected techie chops

[da]

I was just googling for documentation on Twiki. I'm investigating setting up a structured wiki for our Quaker Meeting (as part of a Local Foods project). I know it's going to be easy to install, since I'm running Ubuntu; the question is how soon the problem gets tricky. I'm a bit rusty on how Twiki works under the hood. Well, my google search was fruitful- I found an article I was paid to write, on debugging Twiki. I'd entirely forgotten I'd done that. :)

Out of curiosity, I just googled "ssh tricks". My article on it is still (unaccountably) highest ranked. C'mon people, hasn't somebody had something more important to say on the topic in 4 years?!

Comments

[mynatt.livejournal.com]

That's funny. Although I still can't stand Twiki, or any other wiki which uses SpecialFormatting to denote a wiki link, as opposed to something in [^a-zA-Z0-9_]. Give me MediaWiki any day.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Yes, though remembering the number of single-quotes to signify italics is a real pain for me and mediaWiki. :)

I think in this application, we're not even going to take advantage of much of the wiki formatting, just mostly the structured data-entry pieces that TWiki is supposed to be good for.

Maybe MediaWiki does that too. I mostly just want CRUD that's easy for non-specialists to edit. Well, and Validate. ...CVRUD?

[mynatt.livejournal.com]

With MediaWiki the little javascript buttons that italicize or boldface selected text help a lot. If millions can figure out Wikipedia I'm sure they can figure out your site too (and they'll have the Wikipedia tutorials if they want documentation).

But there's also something to be said for using a tool you already know. (Or at least used to know.)

[morgan-starfire.livejournal.com]

Isn't it weird to discover something you did a long time ago, and completely forgot? Especially when it turns out to be useful?