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The Iron Wiki

The ‘‘The Iron Wiki’’ was a session that took place at MindCamp 2.0 on April 29, 2006, 9pm, Thalmus room.


Thanks to the following attendees:

* Benjamin VanWinkle: Cingluar
* Bob Eagan: Synapse
* Jake Soder: Speakeasy
* Walter Tseng: Amazon.com
* [http://blog.monstuff.com/ Julien Couvreur]
* Al Billings: Microsoft/MobiTV
* Chris Murphy


Wiki Engines Mentioned:

* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki]
* [http://twiki.org/ Twiki]
* [http://rubyforge.org/projects/instiki/ Instikiwiki] - (easy to install, runs on Ruby on Rails) - Walter mentioned that this one is not very mature yet.
* [http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/PmWiki/PmWiki Pmwiki]
* [http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000272.html Take it with you Wiki]
* [http://shopwiki.com/ Shopwiki]
* [http://www.wetpaint.com/ Wetpaint]
* [http://www.jot.com/ Jotspot] (rich text editing)
* [http://www.flexwiki.com/ Flexwiki] (Microsoft) has concept of namespaces
* [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ moinmoinwiki]  (causing problems for some)
* [http://chrismetcalf.net/wiki/index.php/GtdWiki GTDwiki] Get things Done Wiki


Ideas:
* Tag completion
* HTML + Wiki interface to documents
* MVC… separate data layer from view layer…
* locked content (Jake mentioned this, sorry for the lack of detail)
* Change notifications via PHP (Jake mentioned this, sorry for the lack of detail)


Problems:
* How to organize data? There is a lack of structure.
* Will always fail on an intranet… critical mass of authors not there.
* Pages become stagnant/authors leave the company.
* In some situations, too many comments/annotations on a page becomes excessive and decreases the value of the page. For example, will you really read 200 reviews of one book?
* Wiki structures are hard to enforce


Also discussed:
* Pros and Cons of rich text in Wikis (Jotspot)
* Relevant/powerful infrastructures for Wiki backends


[http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/ Lion Kimbro] came in after the meeting and mentioned:
* [http://recentchangescamp.org/ Recent Changes Camp]  (Portland - Wiki related event)


Bug Trackers:

* [http://www.mantisbt.org/ MantisBT]
* [http://www.edgewall.com/trac/ Trac] - (excellent Wiki frontend to SVN)

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