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December 5, 2003
Two bits of wiki news
Posted by Clay Shirky
PC Magazine has a
wiki roundup, explaining wikis to the masses, and reviewing the features of various wiki tools. They give "Editor's Choice" to
EditMe and our own Ross Mayfield's
Socialtext. (w00t!) Interestingly, both EditMe and Socialtext are hosted services, and have added layers of user roles and permissions (admin, user, reader, etc.)
Also, Paul Jones has started work on
Text_Wiki, meant to ease the integration of wiki content that uses different formatting codes, and to make it easier to add wiki functionality to other software tools.
Most Wiki projects use their own internal, specialized parsing and rendering engines to transform source Wiki text to HTML. The rule structures of different Wiki implementations are usually incompatible, leading developers to write their own engine to parse and render their own specialized Wiki markup. This makes it difficult to extract and compare rule structure, as well as making it troublesome to add/modify/delete existing markup rules. In addition, this makes it near-impossible to "drop in" Wiki text transformation processes to a nominally non-Wiki project.
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1. Yoz on December 6, 2003 1:33 PM writes...
The CGI::Wiki module for Perl is worth a look. It implements a complete and useable wiki and the extensibility options (via plugins) allow the addition of not only new formatters (of which several different types are already available) but also different storage methods (such as various SQL databases).
Permalink to Comment2. Yoz on December 6, 2003 1:36 PM writes...
... and to get going with CGI::Wiki quickly, I suggest CGI::Wiki::Kwiki:
Permalink to Commenthttp://search.cpan.org/~kake/CGI-Wiki-Kwiki-0.44/
3. Paul McJones on December 6, 2003 9:47 PM writes...
Some of the links seem to be incorrect: shouldn't EditMe = http://www.editme.com/ and Socialtext = http://www.socialtext.com/ ?
Permalink to Comment4. Seb on December 7, 2003 2:12 PM writes...
Paul: Fixed. Thanks!
Permalink to Comment5. Sunir Shah on December 7, 2003 3:58 PM writes...
Tarquin has also implemented a decent Object-oriented state-based wiki parser (Wookee) for Unreal Wiki. That is the first one I can remember, but not the first one in existance.
Permalink to Comment6. Sunir Shah on December 7, 2003 4:00 PM writes...
http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/Wookee
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