Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features

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

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Re: Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features by gaal (Parson) on Feb 17, 2005 at 05:38 UTC
Kwiki bears obligatory mention when talking about Perl Wikis; I'm not sure about its support for #2 but keep in mind doing that right across browsers is very hard. I don't know if anyone does it "well enough".	[reply]
Re: Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features by m-rau (Scribe) on Feb 17, 2005 at 09:30 UTC
You should go to http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines. I personally prefer http://www.twiki.org, my favorite Perl implementation. It does not use a DB.	[reply]
Re: Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Feb 17, 2005 at 09:09 UTC
As has already been stated you are going to have difficulty with #2 - if you want WYSIWYG then you don't want a Wiki you want HTML designer software and a content management system. If you still want a Wiki look on CPAN /J\	[reply]
Re: Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Feb 17, 2005 at 09:27 UTC
FWIW, Mediawiki, the software behind wikipedia, is now php, although it used to be perl. Dag nab it!	[reply]
Re^2: Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features by Aristotle (Chancellor) on May 02, 2005 at 20:51 UTC
They originally used UseMod. It’s not very scalable. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^3: Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features by JuanmaMP (Initiate) on Jan 29, 2013 at 14:13 UTC
Yes. UseMod makes old versions of a page into one page (with extension ".kp"). Despite not save complete version history, circumstantially can have many versions (eg if many frequently updates) and creates thus a very large file ".kp". (Sorry, my mother-tongue is spanish).	[reply]
Re^2: Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features by amonroy (Scribe) on Feb 17, 2005 at 17:10 UTC
Interesting. Do you know why they switched to PHP?	[reply]
Re^3: Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Feb 17, 2005 at 18:52 UTC
No, I did google around a bit originally as I was curious myself, but didn't find anything real meaty. You can google on `mediawiki "perl until"` [download] and that gets you "... As an example of Perl in action, Wikipedia itself was a CGI script written in Perl until January 2002. ..." ... and that's as far as I got. Maybe you'll have better luck.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features by naChoZ (Curate) on Feb 17, 2005 at 13:20 UTC
I'll add another plug for twiki. Plus, it supports the htmlArea utility for WYSIWYG editing. -- "This alcoholism thing, I think it's just clever propaganda produced by people who want you to buy more bottled water." -- pedestrianwolf	[reply]
Re: Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features by Jaap (Curate) on Feb 17, 2005 at 15:21 UTC
as gellyfish correctly states, if you want wiki formatting than having WYSIWYG is rather silly. But i guess you want wiki for the fact that anybody can edit any page. You want half wiki and half CMS.	[reply]
Re^2: Looking for a Perl-based Wiki with specific features by naChoZ (Curate) on Feb 17, 2005 at 18:22 UTC
It's also helpful if someone has rudely placed you in charge of maintaining some old documentation composed in html. Especially old html documentation that was obviously composed just after someone purchased their copy of CSS for Dummies and wanted to try out every example in the book... `/me grumbles about that happening to him...` -- "This alcoholism thing, I think it's just clever propaganda produced by people who want you to buy more bottled water." -- pedestrianwolf	[reply] [d/l]