Wikis with Perl

weini has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

last week I read an interesting article about wikis. And I found a very simple but effective wiki program with usemod (http://www.usemod.com) - it's just one perl-script.

I would like to know whether you fellow monks have your own experiences with wikis and whether you can recommend a wiki perl-script?! I searched CPAN, of course, but I'd like to benefit from your opinions.

weini

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Re: Wikis with Perl by IlyaM (Parson) on Jan 14, 2003 at 13:11 UTC
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines lists many wikis including those which are written in Perl. In my company we use TWiki to maintain documentation and for project managment (using heavily patched XpTrackerPlugin). -- Ilya Martynov, ilya@iponweb.net CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd Quality Perl Programming and Unix Support UK managed @ offshore prices - http://www.iponweb.net Personal website - http://martynov.org	[reply]
Re: Wikis with Perl by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 14, 2003 at 12:20 UTC
I don't have much of my own to say, but a similar question has been asked recently at Everything vs twiki vs ??. You may want to read some of the posts there. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Wikis with Perl by gjb (Vicar) on Jan 14, 2003 at 12:56 UTC
For something very functional, try TWiki. It is used at my company for in-house documentation and project management. It serves its purpose quite well and is nice to work with. Just my 2 cents, -gjb-	[reply]
Re: Wikis with Perl by tomhukins (Curate) on Jan 14, 2003 at 15:02 UTC
Most Wiki engines I have encountered consist of one monolithic script. People who don't know Perl well can install such scripts easily, but experienced Perl programmers may find them difficult to customise. CPAN modules such as CGI::Wiki and Text::WikiFormat interest me because they break a Wiki engine down into more manageable chunks.	[reply]
Re: Wikis with Perl by diotalevi (Canon) on Jan 14, 2003 at 14:49 UTC
Just be aware that UseMod is a particularly ugly glob of code and isn't useful as code to learn from (if you ever think to open it up and look inside). Fun Fun Fun in the Fluffy Chair	[reply]