If you prefer Perl, Twiki is very nice - it has a strong versioning system (actually, it ties into a Unix versioning system underneath) and is fully templated so you can control the way it looks to the nth degree without mucking around in a lot of Perl (as some wikis would require you to do).
The one thing I personally don't like (and maybe I just didn't spend enough time with it to see if there's a way around) is the quickie internal-linking thing - you create internal links through these TwoWord thingees. Yes, makes it easy to create links, but you end up with odd things like FrameRelay and HewlettPackard all over (but this is a wiki standard, not something unique to Twiki). http://twiki.org/ Adam Gaffin Executive Editor, Network World Fusion [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (508) 490-6433 / http://www.nwfusion.com "I programmed my robotic dog to bite the guy who delivers the electronic mail." -- Kibo > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Dillon [mailto:jdillon@;ourbox.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:58 AM > To: 'Justin Clift'; 'CMS Mailing List' > Subject: RE: [cms-list] Arrrgh... which system to use? > > > Hey Justin - > > Use a wiki. We use phpwiki with maccaws.org, and it works > like a charm. > It's ideal for your application, and can be adapted in a > number of ways. > > Here's the link: > http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ > > Also, check out phpcollab if you're looking for more of a > "planning from > 20k feet" sort of tool: > http://phpcollab.com/website/index.php > > I think they both can be made to work PG too, though I'm not > sure. I've > run phpcollab on sql server and mysql before, on both windows & linux. > > Cheers! > > Jonathan > http://www.Servesite.net > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cms-list-admin@;cms-list.org] > On Behalf Of Justin Clift > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 5:24 AM > To: CMS Mailing List > Subject: [cms-list] Arrrgh... which system to use? > > > Hi all, > > Trying to figure out if what we need is *really* a CMS or > not, but it's > kind of hard to know, being new to the field and having extremely > limited time to learn about it in any other way than "hands on". Am > hoping people on the list can give further guidance in this matter, as > it's pretty new to me. > > Looking for a system that lets multiple people register on a > site, then > collaboratively co-author manuals/guides/documents/etc. > > For example, with PostgreSQL we have a really strong following of > volunteers and users, and they're almost all web-savvy, and they're > spread around an extremely diverse array of operating systems, > environments, etc. > > We're looking for some way of allowing the members of the PostgreSQL > community to co-operatively develop things like a "PostgreSQL Tuning > Guide" and other such documents in an online fashion, preferably using > common technologies (i.e. Mozilla as a front end, etc). > > There are some technical specs that constrain what we're looking for > too: > > - If it uses a database then it has to work with PostgreSQL > - The server side stuff we run for the postgresql.org servers is all > unix based, predominately FreeBSD and it would have to run with that. > - Must have the capability to support multiple languages, whether > through unicode or some other means. Translators are around to do the > needed stuff, but it doesn't help if the capability doesn't exist to > cater to them. > > Open Source is definitely preferable, and being a community > effort we're > extremely cost sensitive. > > Assuming we find something that works well for everyone, there's an > extremely good chance that other very large Open Source projects will > also adopt the solution. > > Is what we're looking for a CMS? If so, any recommendations? > > Sorry for the unusual email, it's just that I can describe > what we need, > but not sure where to look and there are *so many* different systems > around with the label of CMS that it's hard to figure it out. > > Regards and best wishes, > > Justin Clift > > -- > "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those > who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the > first group; there was less competition there." > - Indira Gandhi > -- > http://cms-list.org/ > trim your replies for good karma. > > -- > http://cms-list.org/ > trim your replies for good karma. > -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
