31 January 2005

I need to deploy a wiki. We are using phpwiki for our design group at Novell, and it seems to be really nice because you can edit subsections of a page instead of having to edit the whole page at once. Freedesktop appears to use MoinMoin which has nothing obvious to recommend it.

I’d like something which stores the content in an easy-to-extract way, in case I decide to switch to some crazy new DHTML wiki. The main issue, though, is that this site will receive a lot of traffic, in bursts, will need to survive multiple simultaneous slashdottings, etc. It will need to scale.

Any suggestions?

I just found the Ruby on Rails wiki, Instiki, the most beautiful wiki of all time. Can anyone give me a good reason not to use Instiki?