[seul-edu] Setting up a Wiki: Collaboration on the Net

["Techentin, Robert W." <techentin.robert@mayo.edu>]

> Bob, after seeing the results of the Wiki, several have
> inquired about the possibility of setting up a collaborative
> site for their language.  Wikit uses AOL Server (is that 
> right?), you might want to start a new thread about
> that. How hard is it to set up and maintain? Is there any 
> collaborative software similar to Wikit that uses Apache? 

Glad you've seen the light. :-)  But you're wrong about the AOL sever part.
Wikit runs on just about anything.

"WiKit" is just one WikiWiki implementation, which is described at
http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1.html  The really neat feature of Wikit is
that it is implemented as a "scripted document".  All the web pages and code
are in a single, platform independent file, which you execute as a CGI
script.  You just install this one file, plus a platform specific TclKit
runtime (also a single file), and you have a Wiki that runs with any
CGI-enabled web server.

Just to prove this simplicity to myself, I just set up a wiki at
http://www.techentin.net/cgi_bin/wikit.cgi by downloading an new, empty
wikit.tkd and Linux TclKit runtime from http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/  Then I
had to create one line helper script and make everything accessible as
described at 
http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/48.html

There are other Wiki implementations as well.  See
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiClones for a long list.  Depends, I suppose,
on your favorite languages and what you're willing to install and live with.

Good luck,
Bob
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Bob Techentin                                  techentin.robert@mayo.edu 
Mayo Foundation                                           (507) 284-2702
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