Try Ruwiki, too (Re: [ANN] Soks - Yet Another Wiki)
Copied from Email on Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:58:01 +0900 from James Britt (jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com)
Curt Hibbs wrote:
> James Britt wrote:
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>>Soks rocks.
>
>
> I agree... very nice!
>
> I really liked Instiki, but I could never stick with it (pun not intended),
> because I really wanted flat file storage. It looks like Soks will step in
> and fill that void!
I want to add, though, that I also finally got around to giving
Austin Ziegler's Ruwiki[0] a whirl, and I'm quite impressed.
It, too, uses flat files, though different from most other file-based
wikis. What really caught my eye was the ability to neatly partition
pages into projects.
I tend to use wikis for two reasons. One is to store random thoughts,
names+phone numbers, bookmarks (though del.icio.us is slowly taking over
there; need a #{wiki_of_choice} <-> del.icio.us bridge), and tasks.
The other related use is to organize software projects. Ruwiki seems to
have the edge for this purpose. I have to see how well it plays with my
various command line tools designed to manipulate Wiki data without
having to go through a web server. For example, sometimes I want to add
what I believe to be a new topic. I may not want to launch a web
browser just to jot down some note, so I have a script that searches the
current set of wiki pages, looking for a topic/title match. If found,
vim pops up with that file. If not found, vim pops up anyway, but a new
file is created based off the topic search.
(Another wiki hack is automatic CVS synchronization, so I can run mirror
wikis off multiple machines without having to have a single, always-on,
master wiki.)
Ruwiki runs as CGI or WEBrick, is easy to get and install (though,
currently, not as easy as Soks), and easy to customize.
I have to spend more time with it, but I strongly encourage people to
try it out.
James
[0] http://ruwiki.rubyforge.org/ruwiki.cgi
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