I’ve been playing around with PMWiki on my website trying to get it installed and configured so that it does what I want. Overall, I like it alot. Its very easy to use and was simple to install. When I say simple I think that almost anyone could do it and it takes less than five minutes to get it working. My biggest compliant is that it doesn’t have an easy to use WYSIWYG editor. I really don’t want to learn Wiki markup. I know it isn’t difficult. However, there is a part of me that just thinks that it is dump to have to learn it. So, I’d really like to get a WYSIWYG editor working. There sort of is one, but it requires some changes to the server that I’m that thrilled about making or asking Blake to make. A part of me is dying to try out Instiki and add S5 to that. However, it runs on Ruby on Rails, which isn’t installed on LISHost… I could always install Rails on my Mac and see if I like it, particularly since I wanted to try doing some Rails development. The problem is that I’m afraid that I’ll like it alot and then not be able to have it on my site. I can’t seem to find directions on how to make Instiki wiki-farms so it won’t meet my work Wiki needs.
The reason I originally decided to play with PmWiki is because it has an add-on that uses the S5 software to create presentation slides as part of the wiki. Plus it look relatively easy to set up Wiki-farms. So I thought it might be suitable for home and work. Basically I could kill to birds with one stone and only have to learn one piece of wiki software thoroughly.
This really appealed to me. However, I want to use the wiki for some personal project management as well and for this I want a WYWIWYG editor. There is a “to do list” add-on for PmWiki that has possibilities. Still, upon initial examination, it isn’t all that I want it to be. So I’ll play some more and likely install a couple more tools (Instiki and MediaWiki, maybe PHPwiki?) as well to see what I think before I make any final choices.
Check out:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Cookbook#Editing
for your GUI (if not WYSIWYG) editor.
Pmwiki was my frontrunner using at GT, but trying to integrate it into our existing intranet proved particularly frustrating (it contains some of the most poorly named functions I’ve run across in a while).
Currently, I ‘ve got the users who are asking for a wiki trying erfurtwiki, although it probably wouldn’t suit your needs either (I’m not sure what wiki-farm is, but I doubt ewiki could do it, out-of-the-box). It’s more of a ‘wiki-library’ than a standalone wiki (or, rather, they have designed it to be either), so if you have an infrastructure in place, it might be worth looking at.
But I agree with you about wiki markup. And if I refuse to learn it, I have to figure the staff here will, too.
About Rails on Mac: You might want give Locomotive a try; it’s a packaged executable for Rails on Mac OS X, which makes it really easy to get started.
Like MediaWiki a lot.
Visit the link below for the wysiwyg in pmwiki.
FCK editor has ben ported to pmwiki and I have tested it to be OK if not everything.
http://www.carltonbale.com/blog/2005/11/133/#comment-2746