Re: Building up a new *user* wiki!

[herbert langhans <w3%langhans.com.pl@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:02:24PM +0100, Julian Djamil Fagir wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the current situation is that there is no user wiki for about 1 1/2
> years,
> and no central place where to gather documentation by users. Have e.g.
> a look
> at this thread:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2012/01/06/msg009790.html
> This is a great lack for NetBSD, and with a 6.0 release coming some
> time, a
> user wiki is nowadays imho a must-have of every larger Open Source
> project.

Hi Julian,
I run two wikis on my server - Mediawiki is a good choice for my demands
( http://650wiki.org ) and probably not what you are looking for.

Just some input about maintenance. I had and still have some quite
annoying experience with spammers. Lots of junk gets dumped, automated
dummy user registration and things like that. It requires continous
attention. I also tried to get some people for maintaining the wikis,
but often they loose interest and it remains my duty to care for it.
Such projects go on for many years (at least mine).

Whatever software you choose - try to get some solution what requires a
minimum of care. If the content increases it requires lots of time to
watch it.

Cheers
herb langhans