Wiki software that fails to suck
Is there such an animal?
MediaWiki is a bloated monster, impossible to configure. I’ve spent two weeks trying and failing to coax PmWiki into doing what I need it to. MoinMoin flatly refused to install. What the hell? If this is the future, I’ll take the past, thank you.
Here’s what I need:
- Disallow anonymous editing. This is a must-have.
- Edit tracking, and easy reversion.
- A look-and-feel I can mess with. A good theme library is a big plus, because I hate messing with things.
- A sensible, usable admin interface.
- Documentation in English, not barely-literate geekese. Don’t point me to wiki-based documentation, either. Talk about things that conspicuously suck.
- An install that doesn’t break my brain. Or my webhost.
Nice to have, but not essential:
- Clean URLs.
- Clean markup.
- Written in Python.
I am really starting to be annoyed. I like working with wikis, but I had no idea administering one was such a pain in the nethers. Suggestions, anyone?