Watched Pot

I used to be a total FreshMeat junkie, reading it almost every day and chaffing at the painfully slow progress made by the OpenSource community. Eventually I decided that there had to be something better for me to do with my time and stopped obsessively monitoring the progress of the projects I cared about. Yesterday I poked around for the first time in ages and found PmWiki, written by PatrickMichaud, which looks to be an impressive new comer into the WikiSoftware space. It supports most of the features I care about and includes many that I've wished for in MoinMoin for a long time, including an photo gallery plugin.

I don't immediately see a way to blog using it but I need to poke around a bit more. I wish it was written in Python but then it does seem so much easier to develop web application in PHP.

UPDATE: From reading the PmWiki web site I also discovered OddMuse which is based on UseMod only with many many more features, including a raft of blogging specific functions. Nice.

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I looked at the site for OddMuse, and I have to admit it really cranks my rotor. I've been thrashing with the limitations of Kwiki for a while, but there are not many simple wikis around with good blogging support. -- AaronCaskey

Both have the (for me) killer features of allowing HTML entities so I can type ° and get a degree symbol. Floats my boat big time. Neither has a spell check? What's with that? Adam - I think the Wiki Trails and page include functions in PmWiki provide a nice foundation for content (rather than calendar) based blogging. But then I consider the sequence of blog entry titles to be much more interesting than calendar links. Having said all that I dipped my fingers into the conversion process. Ohgawd. grrrr pain. Customizations are a pain to export -- MichaelRasmussen

AdamShand/2004-05-12 (last edited 2004-05-17 00:28:21 by AdamShand)