(2009-10-17) Zwiki Clone Choice

I've been playing with Pinax a little, but realize my top personal-project priority probably should be to Clone Zwiki. Should I really be using Pinax for that? Or even Django?

• don't want to end up hosting a bunch of users esp if getting free hosting from my friend.

• is the user/group/Social Networking side of value?

  • could support allowing some discussion of pages

    • do with simple Discussion Forum plugin?

    • do with DisQus?

    • do with separate per-page field to Append to? (That would allow WikiWord use.) (Would probably require the most work.)

• is any of the CMS bits of use? Yes, want some static pages (e.g. career) and images, but ok to just edit those manually and upload to Apache directory.

• So what should I use?

  • Go all the way back/out to MoinMoin or PikiPiki? Go back to Robaccia?

    • Wouldn't handle the static stuff, but actually that could just be direct Apache.

• Key thing is support for Re Structured Text (uh-oh, is that Structured Text?). So next step is to check whether Django WikiEngine supports it (definitely Pinax does), and check MoinMoin too.

  • Clarifying: WikiLog is currently in Structured Text. I don't like Re Structured Text (see SmartAscii). So need to either find an engine that does Structured Text, modify one, make a new one, or pick another SmartAscii flavor...

  • Why consider MoinMoin?

    • Sucker for relatively light code, plus use of File System instead of Data Base (feels like a big downside to Django).

      • Is it really light? Check for surprises, like TracWiki nightmare.

    • Is it moving forward still?

    • How hard to make less ugly? (Hide pointless features.)

I see that all the back in May'2007 Joe Gregorio was making a WikiEngine in Robaccia. Hmm but then it looks like he ripped it out....

Oct19: see Cloning Zwiki With Moinmoin