DokuWiki: an Undiscovered Gem
I finished the soft launch of the ZetaBoards Documentation Project today, and have to say that DokuWiki is hands-down the best wiki software I have ever used, installed, or written with. From MediaWiki to MoinMoin to phpWiki, DokuWiki offers more features, a cleaner setup, and easier use.
I took our new website template and ported it to DokuWiki in a matter of hours. And most of that time was spent redoing part of the header to add more functionality that the website didn’t need. Things worked just by dropping in a few PHP tags here and there. The only other software this easy to skin is WordPress.
There are a few hundred plugins written for DokuWiki, and the syntax is extremely simple should I choose to make more. I picked a couple and installed them on our installation in about 20 minutes. The notes plugin is amazing. The entire codebase is PHP-Doc’d so I can understand what everything does, and make changes where I need them!
The 2005-9 release I was using lacked a little bit on user management, but that’s all been fixed with the 2006-3 release that I just finished upgrading to. I have full control on access permissions, user groups, everything. And the new release also added some great AJAX goodness like an AJAX quicksearch. I also successfully installed aspell to my home directory and now the AJAX spellcheck it features works flawlessly.
There are no databases needed; it’s all flat-file and fast. I can move the directory around and nothing breaks; all that’s needed are some CHMODs. It’s drop-dead simple, gorgeous, well-written, featureful, and fast. How does it get better than this?
If you need a wiki software, this is the one for you.
How much are they paying you?
It looks nice to me, Seth. Course I can’t see much of it, just the end result of it. I might take a closer look later when I get a change.
I like it. Nicely layed out and easy to use.
Indeed, DokuWiki seems nice. From what you’ve said, the themes and plugins support for it sounds really great. If you say it’s as easy to skin as WordPress, then that gives me some idea of just how easy and flexible it is.
It’s certainly easy to use, although it does have it’s quirks (well, differences to ons like MediaWiki actually, i’ve only really used MediaWiki before so that’s what i’m used to). And it’s definitely fast as you said, unlike MediaWiki, on both viewing and editing pages.
Great choice ^_^
So you tell me this AFTER I get my Wikicity
XD
Do you know any place where there are DokuWiki Themeing tutorials? I would like to go through a few of them before actually digging my hands into the code.
I do have great experience using dokuwiki. The only think I am looking for are the themes. More and sort of a Web 2.0 themes. Surely, dokuwiki will somewhat follow the footsteps of WordPress. From simplicity to a marvelous beauty.
I’ll agree it’s easy to use feature rich and good, but it isn’t as feature rich as some of the big boys
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