Re: [tlug] about Tlug Wiki

[Alain Hoang <hoanga@example.com>]

leon calvaud wrote:
> Hello all,
> i'm new to this list so i'll introduce myself fast.

	Bienvenue au TLUG.

> I looked about some few mails on mailling lists yesterday and day before, and you talked about wiki. I think it's a good idea to do a wiki, much user, or visitors could help you using it. But there are much wiki project (over 100) and the problem is to find one that suits the goal of Tlug. In this way i could help you by giving you a list and maybe helping you by testing some of these wiki.

	At the last TLUG technical meeting, Josh was mentioning that he 
personally was learning towards MediaWiki as a candidate.  Frankly, I 
don't care what wiki software gets installed as long as something gets 
installed sooner rather than later.  Personally, I'd lean towards 
MediaWiki as well since it has a bit of mindshare (with that Wikipedia 
project and all) so there is motivation for the MediaWiki developers to 
continue maintaining and improving it.

> I tried today to look about wikis projects, and i begin a list of these.
> But due to number of these (more than 100), i need to know exactly what Tlug needs, so feel free to say me your wishes.

	I'm not sure if there's been a discussion the TLUG list discussing what 
type of wiki members would be comfortable with.  There might have been 
some rumblings on the admin mailing list but if this is going to be a 
service offered for the TLUG community, a discussion on THIS mailing 
list seems appropriate.

	Although my understanding from the meeting is some of these features 
would be desirable:
1. Supported under Debian
2. Authorized-only edits
3. Some way to link the userid with a TLUG member name on the mailing 
list (Isn't this just a 2 line bash-script?)
4. MediaWiki-compatible syntax supported


	As for MediaWiki itself.  I just double checked the package listings on 
Debian's site [1] and it seems that MediaWiki is in Debian testing and 
unstable but not in stable.  I'm not sure if this will be a problem for 
installation on hikari or not.  I guess that can be hashed out later.


Alain