Re: [seul-edu] Reservations about Wikis: Site tools for

["Prevett, Larry" <Prevettl@cochise.cc.az.us>]

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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:42:05 -0700
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> I hear about and see wiki all the time ... does wiki have a home page?
> What lingo is it written in?
> Michael

The Portland Pattern Factory is probably the closest thing
to a home page for wikis (?)
http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiWikiWeb

Wikis are written in just about any language.
http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiEngines

If you like PHP you'd probably like phpwiki.
On Jeff's recommendations, if you like Python
you could try Pwiki. The SEUL wiki is also a
Python based Zwiki installed by Bruno Vernier
with modifications.  
http://ess.vancouver.bc.ca/zope/bruno/eduml/ZWiki

Most of them are very easy to install and use. I would
just pick one and try it out.

I'm partial to wikit because of a fantastic
first experience with it, thanks to Bob
Techentin and the TCLers. 

I asked the same question about a year ago,
and Bob (who I am glad to see is still on the list!)
suggested these links:

The TCLers wiki is at
http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/0.html

Check out their page entitled "Wiki" at
http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/11.html.

or their Welcome Visitors page at
http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/31.html.

Sorry, got carried away. This will (probably) be my
last posting on the topic of wikis vs. sourceforge-like
tools, too - I'll just put some more stuff about wikis
in the SEUL wiki. You should too!

lp