Wiki Engine Review Rhk Objectives

My (rhkramer's) Wiki Objectives

These are the reasons I want to choose / use / obtain a WikiEngine (or WikiForum).

My criteria for choosing a wiki are on WikiEngineReviewRhkCriteria.

I am looking for wikis:

to run on my own Linux computer (or possibly from a WikiFarm) for my own personal notes (replacing AskSam which I run on Windows)
to use for the LVLUG (Lehigh Valley Linux Users Group), which would probably be run on their server
to (potentially) provide discussion forums for Lyx (and KLyX), Linux, and C++, these would probably be on a WikiFarm.

I notice WardsWiki has many pages on C++ that look helpful. I may just contribute to their Wiki pages, although I don't know if they want to cover what I want to cover. I am trying to learn (C and) C++ -- I want a Wiki to record my learnings in a way that will help the newbie, something like the few Linux pages I put on the CLUG. See http://www.clug.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?UsingLinuxCommands. -- rhk

I also have some strange thoughts about trying to program or document programs using a Wiki (or at least something with hypertext links). Looks like Ward has already done this with his HyperPerl, see http:wikibase?HyperPerl.

You might want to take a look at http://leo.sourceforge.net/ -- RolandKaufmann

(A year ago I wrote a large program in Visual Basic in a "semi-literate" (ala Donald Knuth) style using Microsoft Word. When I wanted to run the program I saved it as plain text and renamed it with the appropriate VB extension. One advantage was that, in Word I could write extensive comments which were obvious and visible because they "wrapped".When I worked in the VB debugger the comments were less obtrusive because they did not wrap, they just extended to the right (to infinity ;-). (And, they were in a different color.))

Since I am a Linux newbie, I want to initially run my own wiki on a farm (or continue to use AskSam) until I manage to set up a wiki on my own machine. One criteria is that it be simple to set up.

There are more experienced people in the LVLUG, which means they can handle a more complicated wiki if it has advantages.

For the other public wikis, I expect to use a WikiFarm, because I don't have the resources to maintain my own server on the Web. (Unless I find appropriate sponsors / hosts -- SourceForge would be a clear candidate.)

It would be ideal if one WikiEngine met all these needs.

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