More about wikis

This web blog is a content manager for one person’s ideas. A wiki is a content manager that allows multiple users to manage content (add, change or delete). This schema makes a wiki an effective tool for project collaboration or ordered information sharing. Users can either be unregistered or logged-in for authentication.

The term ‘wiki’ may refer to either the collaborative software itself (server/wiki engine), or to specific websites, including online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia. Wiki wiki means “quick” in Hawaiian.

I had every intentions to install and test the TWiki but there are some complexities that I wanted to avoid, so I decided to go with a GPL open source called PmWiki. There are a dozen open source versions of wikis out there, and this one seems to be easy to install and fully functional without having to configure PERL modules. I prefer the PHP (hypertext pre-processor) that PMWiki is based on. I hope to have the test case ‘page’ actually working as soon as I configure it to be secure and spam-proof. (WHy is it that spam is so prevalent?) An unsecured Wiki page might be ok on an intranet, but on here, it’s a whole ‘nother game….