Re: Prothon Lang Dev Wiki

Laurent Dube wrote:

> Open question: selection of wiki software.

Can someone pitch in with suggestions on which software is preferable?

Here are some refs:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0120501/2004/06/10.html#a709
The Wide World of Wiki: Choosing a wiki for an element of a fully online 
undergraduate course (James Farmer)

http://francois.granger.free.fr/wikiinfo/comparatifwiki.htm
Wiki engine comparison (François Granger)

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Wiki-software
Wiki software list

and an interesting summary on 
http://ferret.bemidjistate.edu/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?WhenBlogMeetsWiki

> A wiki can capture the compositional virtues of the blog in
> ThreadMode, and move towards the rhetorical virtues of the
> essayistic, memexish, wiki as the nodes are refactored/revised into
> DocumentMode, as in WikiAndEssay. As [IAWiki mentions], the blog
> space tends to encourage speech - transient, and dealing with
> immediate and transients, composed on the fly. The wiki encourages
> text - aimed toward the more permanent, revised, recursive.
> 
> However, posting on a blog is easier than on a wiki in great part
> because you do not need to decide where to post: you post to the top,
> or in an already-defined category. On a wiki, one has to find a place
> to put the post, which costs cognative overhead. Where to place it can
> be lightened by using a DropBox or DrawingBoard to store posts for
> placement later.


  Laurent Dube