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[compilerbitch]

Hi folks,

I know there are some Wiki fanciers out there, so I'd like to pick your brains.

I want to redo my personal and academic web sites, but I don't want to have to code HTML from scratch everywhere. What I'd rather do is hack a Wiki, or maybe some non-LJ blog system, which has the huge advantage that I can do it from anywhere without having to worry very much about things like ssh access to the web server. And so on.

So, what do you recommend? What I'd like is something that does most (ideally all) of the following:

1. Provide a non-editable URL that looks like a normal web page and can be displayed in one frame of a frame set.
2. Hackable styles. CSS would be good, but something specific to the platform is OK too
3. Support for in-line LaTeX markup
4. RSS support would be nice (export, not that bothered about importing feeds)
5. Must run on reasonably vanilla linux/apache (I don't want a lot of admin faff, and I may need to move it from server to server a few times in the near future)

I'm kind-of thinking I might want something wiki-like *and* something else bloglike.

Suggestions, please?

Comments

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Don't know, but we use MediaWiki, as used by Wikipedia, at work, and just the other day I modified it by importing a PHP file I found on the web to allow it to handle iframes (<mpeg-geek>not to be confused with I-Frames</mpeg-geek>), and then hacked the PHP so it didn't fall over when it came across I-frame URLs calls to CGI scripts with parameters with equals signs, so suchlike aspects of it are fairly easily modifiable.

I've no idea whether this is of any use to you at all, but hey.

[keithlard.livejournal.com]

I am in love with MediaWiki. It's very easy to install, requires only vanilla Apache/PHP/MySQL, and it makes a great lightweight CMS with built-in versioning and skinnability. So there you go :>

[hmw26.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend WordPress.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

I'll throw in my tuppenceworth for MediaWiki; it's what we use at work.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

I have MediaWiki installed and working. The TeX support works well (*is impressed!*)

It'll take me a while to get it scrunged into a working state, but so far so good.

[talisker.livejournal.com]

We use Confluence at the EBI and it's pretty robust. You can get a free personal license.

[trurl.livejournal.com]

This is exactly the sort of thing I've been thinking about doing too actually. I rather like MediaWiki in some regards (it's LaTeX markup support is kind of suboptimal unfortunately). The main problem I see with it there is no easy way to make portions of the wiki private using MediaWiki.

So I've been getting tempted to write something in Haskell, but that way lies madness. Or at least lots of lost sleep and that much time away from finishing my degree.

[trurl.livejournal.com]

In case you might wonder why I'd like parts of the wiki to be private, it would be nice to use it to keep things like research ideas and notes organized.

Oh, and the other problem that I foresaw was that I wouldn't be able to edit it unless I had an internet connection. The day when I'll have a connection no matter where I go may not be too distant in the future, but it still isn't here yet.