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Explore different wikis #1

Open shahidhk opened 7 years ago

shahidhk commented 7 years ago

Take a look at demos for some of the wikis listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software and do a basic comparison to figure out which is the best one for our use-case.

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m-raj commented 7 years ago

Other than mediaWiki, DokuWiki can also be used. Both these wikis are written in PHP. The advantage of DokuWiki is that it's data are stored in plain text files and hence it does not use any database server. http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/dokuwiki+mediawiki

shanmukh11 commented 7 years ago

Why can't we use TiddlyWiki? All the information seems to be saved in a single file. Even the process of editing content will become easier with this right?

shahidhk commented 7 years ago

@shanmukh11, while it might look like having a single file is good, for big projects, it is not so. As the project gets bigger, managing will become difficult. @debuggermayank That is why we need a proper database to store data instead of file(s)