WikiMigration

Wiki Migration

More than 400 pages and many users contributing, we have surpassed the limits of our original wiki engine: Tinywiki. This page documents the thinking behind our choice of replacement.

We need a wiki that...

• Is easy to use. We want to encourage players to improve the wiki, it is not only for developers.
• Prevents vandalism. Most probably with user authentication.
• Has categorization. Even if it is very simple, we need some kind of categorization or sub-sections.

Wiki engines tested so far

Here are some important features/problems of various wiki engines:

• Pmwiki
  • http://wesnoth.slack.it/wiki/
  • No user registration
• Dokuwiki
  • http://wesnoth.slack.it/dokuwiki/
  • Incomplete user registration (it is not even possible to change/reset the password)
• Moinmoin
  • This one is good, especially, the global blacklisting system. Anything matching one of the regexps on a (hourlysynchronized) central list can't get posted, and apparently, would have caught all the spam attacks we get here: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/BadContent (Allefant)
• Mediawiki.
  • http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/
  • This is what we moved to after TinyWiki
• Wikkawiki