Recommendations for personal wiki software?

samwise · 2008-12-15 09:54:14

I'm thinking about setting up a personal wiki to, you know, organize myself and keep track of things...whatever you do with wikis. I started writing a simple one in Ruby as a project, but it's going to take a while to get anywhere and I want to start using something now.

What wiki software do people prefer?

Things that would be really nice:
* I'll want to serve it so I can reference/edit it from work and different computers - so preferrably edits should be password/ssl protected
* Mind map/graphical representations
* easily insert and edit mathematics (and code)
* Bonus marks if it has a personalizable favicon or is related to emacs in some way.

Any recommendations? Should I be using something industrial-strength like MediaWiki or MoinMoin, or is there a more lightweight solution?

MindTooth · 2008-12-15 10:59:41

I would either use MediaWiki, or DokuWiki. Prefer MediaWiki over any other.

Birger

timetrap · 2008-12-15 12:00:17

I prefer dokuwiki w/ lighttp . . .

No database (all files are text files)
Tons of plugins
And a GREAT install guide on the Arch Wiki (Which I wrote) http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dokuwiki

dokuwiki also has a built-in syntax highlighter for code. Which I use a lot. Having all of the pages stored as plain text makes makes administration a snap too.

You also mentioned something about emacs. Well you can edit dokuwiki in two ways.

Go right to the directory with the text files and start editing them.
Or use a firefox plugin called "It's All Text" which will allow you to open any 'text area' tags in your favorite editor.

Last edited by timetrap (2008-12-15 12:02:45)

chimeric · 2008-12-15 14:24:33

Check out http://wikimatrix.org, it's a great place to compare different Wiki engines and can help you find the Wiki of your choice.

Last edited by chimeric (2008-12-15 14:25:09)

jordi · 2008-12-15 17:25:15

Recently I ran into http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ which seemed quite nice as a personal wiki. But I am not sure if mind map and mathematics is possible with it.

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Ashren · 2008-12-15 19:12:38

timetrap: Thanks for the wiki entry, but following your instructions I can't even get the test page to work (error 404). I think lighttpd's new default user and usergroup is 'http', but chown'ing /var/run/lighttpd does give any positive result. Any ideas on how to get lighttpd up and running - Dokuwiki looks really interesting.

nj · 2008-12-16 00:12:57

The lighttpd package used a different default directory when that wiki page was created. The package also does not seem to include a test page any more. I have updated the wiki page with info for the latest package. Try again and see if it works.

samwise · 2008-12-16 06:32:24

Thanks for the response guys.

I like the look of Lighttp for a server, seems much simpler than Apache.

Plaintext files is a really good idea. DokuWiki is attractive, however I think I'll try MoinMoin. It also has plain text files, but it's used at uni, and it's written in Python (which I'm comfortable coding with) instead of PHP (which I don't know at all) which will make it easier to tinker with.

samwise · 2008-12-16 08:11:21

Whoops I seem to have inadvertently installed dokuwiki anyway. That guide on the wiki is great nj.

Ashren · 2008-12-16 08:15:07

Thanks nj that worked.

nj · 2008-12-16 23:42:52

samwise wrote:

Whoops I seem to have inadvertently installed dokuwiki anyway. That guide on the wiki is great nj.

timetrap deserves the credit for the guide. I just modified the paths to work with the latest package.

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