DokuWiki

I was looking for some Wiki software the other day that I could use to handle a large volume of static content I had with my old CMS that doesn’t really fit into WordPress very well. I settled on the excellent DokuWiki.

Unlike most Wiki software, DokuWiki doesn’t use a database but instead stores all data in plain ASCII files. Not sure how well that would work for very active Wiki’s, but as I’m using it as a read-only application anyway (i.e., I’m the only user allowed to make edits), its a nice, clean way for me to set up my content. And it was trivially easy to install.

4 thoughts on “DokuWiki”

  1. Well, I had a bunch of public domain e-books in my conversant site, so I’ve added those. For example, lots of books about pirates I grabbed off of Project Gutenberg (need to go through and give them proper Wiki formatting at some point, though).

    I’ve also had a longstanding desire to do a B:TVS fansite which I’ve got a shell for.

    The drawback is unlike Conversant, now I’ve got three separate applications to do what I could do with just one — and, of course, searching across them because somewhat tricky. There is a plugin that integrates DokuWiki into WordPress so it at least uses the same template, etc., but it doesn’t appear to be compatible with the latest version of WP.

  2. It’s really a tough tradeoff. WordPress has an active development community but a lot of the stuff we used to do in Conversant is kinda hacked together from plugins and hope.

    (Also: I posted this at Animalrights.net – can you contact me? I seem to have a lot more permissions than I think I should have.)

  3. “It’s really a tough tradeoff. WordPress has an active development community but a lot of the stuff we used to do in Conversant is kinda hacked together from plugins and hope.”

    That is a huge drawback. This site is currently using 25 plugins.

    One of the frustrating things is there is a lot that should, imo, be built in that you have to go out and get a third party plugin for. Want to cache pages for better performance? Get a plugin. Want to include a custom footer in your RSS feed? Get a plugin. Add redirections if you move content? Get a plugin.

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