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Choosing a Wiki

Looking for a good personal wiki. There are too many choices out there. Need something robust/fully featured enough to do what I need, and simple to install. Blog integration would be nice, as would facets/labels (a la del.icio.us and gmail).

  • A google for “wiki feature comparison” brought up this:
  • Wiki Choice Tree, which in turn led me to
    • Rhyzome (which looks really promising)
    • SnipSnap (which looks pretty good too–and I like the long-term view of blog/wiki integration, I’m sure is the Way of the Future)
    • Instiki (but do they have it for non-mac?)
  • And Leonard says

    (23:37:15) *Leonard:* instiki is good if you’re on a mac
    (23:37:18) *Leonard:* it has a menu bar app
    (23:37:26) *Leonard:* trac is good if you want subversion/issue tracking integration
    (23:37:37) *Leonard:* stikiwiki has promise

    That being said, however:

    • I don’t have a mac
    • trac has been a headache to install (or rather, its dependencies have…I gave up after a couple hours, damn quicksilver and docutils)
    • and the stikiwiki page is down.
Comments closed — Trackbacks closed RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Thursday, September 23, 2004, at 16:30 by mote. Filed in computer, copious spare time, General.

4 Comments

  1. Ben Nolan

    Stikiwiki is back.

    Posted on 23-Sep-04 at 21:15 | Permalink
  2. Merc

    Instiki works across many platforms, not just Mac.

    Posted on 10-Feb-05 at 08:55 | Permalink
  3. Phil Mitchell

    I like your criteria — esp. tags + wiki — exactly what I’m looking for. How did this work out for your? What did you end up using?

    Posted on 28-Apr-05 at 11:02 | Permalink
  4. mote

    Update: I ended up using MediaWiki. It was a breeze to install and relatively easy to tweak. It has tags (it calls them categories), and while the interface is a bit rough to use them as a primary navigation tool, they show promise.

    Posted on 28-Apr-05 at 13:41 | Permalink