Why do we use MediaWiki?

[Chris Meller]

I've had no end of problems with MediaWiki lately. Upgrading it is a nightmare, configuring it isn't much better, extending it is a cluster ****, and the permissions system is non-existent. I also generally find the process of searching and editing content to be confusing and unglamorous, so I'm all-around hating life every time I have to touch it.

So I'm curious if there's a reason we went with MW? I suspect simply because it's *the* wiki package, but thought I'd check. I really don't know of anything better off hand and I'm content to leave it alone until it needs attention again, but I thought I might be able to at least get some brainstorming or opinions going.

[Owen Winkler]

On 1/12/2011 2:18 PM, Chris Meller wrote:
>
> So I'm curious if there's a reason we went with MW? I suspect simply
> because it's *the* wiki package, but thought I'd check. I really
> don't know of anything better off hand and I'm content to leave it
> alone until it needs attention again, but I thought I might be able
> to at least get some brainstorming or opinions going.

That was the reason why: It's *the* wiki package. But I agree that it
sucks.

Unfortunately, I also don't have any immediate suggestion for an
alternative. Looking through the available software on Wikipedia's
comparison of wikis, there are a few PHP ones, and even a couple that
use ASL as a license. The question is, if we were to switch to
something else, what is the pain of switching all of the markup to
whatever the new system is?

Owen

[David Latapie]

2011/1/12 Owen Winkler <epi...@gmail.com>:

> That was the reason why: It's *the* wiki package.  But I agree that it
> sucks.

I have the same issue with a project of mine.

I am seriously considering moving to Google Docs, now that revision
control is enabled. Granted, internal linking is far from OK but all
in all, It may prove better.

What do you think of this?