[Freedombox-discuss] Wiki Engine for a DreamPlug?

[Dan Ballance]

Ikiwiki looks great - the only comment I would make is that (according to
the previously mentioned wiki comparison site) it doesn't seem to support
localisation. Can anyone confirm this?

Whilst I agree security needs to be a top priority, if we want these boxes
to be used widely in countries with oppressive regimes, then I think
localisation into many languages, or at least the ability for the user
community to do so, should be an important priority also.

Just my 2p, dan :)
 On 27 Dec 2011 04:45, "kent" <kent at songbird.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 08:08:00 +0700, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> On 11-12-26 at 04:17pm, Nick Daly wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wondering what you'd recommend for a wiki engine on the DreamPlug?
>>>
>>
>> I recommend to avoid coding envorinments that encourage speedy and
>> "sloppy" coding with little or no care for security.  I am no expert in
>> that field, but would personally steer away from PHP, Ruby on rails and
>> Django.
>>
>
> Agree...
>
>  I recommend to aim for extreme efficiency in power concumption and
>> memory use.  Without having done any actual analysis on the matter, it
>> seems ideal to me to favor precompilation of static web pages over the
>> extremely common rendering on-the-fly from a general-purpose database.
>>
>
> Agree also...
>
>  Specifically, I would recommend Ikiwiki!
>>
>
> I would like to agree, because I like ikiwiki a lot, and it's what I use
> for my personal projects almost exclusively.  But I think ikiwiki is a
> piece of software that demands a certain amount of technical
> sophistication, and if the intent is to have something that the average
> citizen can easily use, it would be necessary to to set up a wrapper for
> some canned configurations, with a larger set of themes.
>
>  The FreedomBox Foundation uses Ikiwiki for their website.
>>
>> Ikiwiki comes with very few "themes" but visual style can be radically
>> changed: http://kobenhavnsdelebiler.dk/ (Freel free to examine its
>> source: http://source.delebilfonden.**dk/?p=website.git;a=blob;f=**README<http://source.delebilfonden.dk/?p=website.git;a=blob;f=README>)
>>
>
> Yes, but surely we don't expect the average user to be tweaking CSS etc?
>
> Don't get me wrong -- I think it would be great to use ikiwiki, but it
> would take some work to make it accessible to the average person, don't you
> think?
>
> I guess it depends on the use case, though.  If the intent is to provide a
> standard "Freedom Box Wiki" that comes preconfigured, then it would be
> great.
>
> Kent
>
>
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