Sandals and Socks

The wiki-selection engine: http://www.wikimatrix.org/ is a great tool to get which of 100’s of wiki engines satisfy certain criteria. Preferred selection of wikis:

• twiki: it uses Perl (it’s the only one of the list), which could be an issue: how easy is it to setup? could be used on SF.net?
• phpwiki: similar to twiki capability-wise, but written in PHP; doesn’t support SVG editing like twiki does, but supports MySQL and SQLite in addition to file-based repository, whereas twiki is limited to files
• pmwiki: only one to support SVG editing (together with twiki), but a lot of capabilities are from plugins, which can mean a lot of searching and installing
• tikiwiki: comparable to twiki in many ways but written in PHP; doesn’t support SVG editing or complex tables but has other features that twiki doesn’t (more stats pages and database types, e.g.). Note that Tikiwiki is also a CMS: has modules to support blogs, trackers, etc.
• docuwiki: doesn’t support PDF export, but othewise comparable to others
• moinmoin: uses files rather than DB
• wikkawiki: doesn’t support PDF export, but othewise comparable to others

Wikkawiki was preferred choice for wiki that support code highlighting and MySQL and could be set up on SourceForge. I remember trying either phpwiki or pmwiki (believe the latter one) on SF.net and couldn’t get it setup (was easy to screw up setup).