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[edit] Discussion of "Wiki engines using MySQL"
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An odd subset of the (arguably too inclusive) list at Wiki software; not really encyclopedic and of little value. Orphaned apart from a whole load of redirects, PhpWiki (which is a sub-stub anyway) and MySQL (as a "see also"). - IMSoP 16:51, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Merge into Wiki software.--PlasmaDragon 17:35, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry, I should have mentioned: I've merged all the non-duplicated info into Wiki software, but I see no reason to bother making this a redirect. - IMSoP 20:02, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Concur with Plasmadragon. --Improv 18:24, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I think this is a useful split. Keep and remove from Wiki software, keeping only a link to this subpage. anthony (see warning) 16:16, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Validity of this page
OK, so clearly I didn't garner consensus that this page should be deleted outright, so let's discuss some more. As mentioned, I personally think the list of Wiki engines we have at the moment is excessive: remember, Wikipedia is not a web directory. Given that there are more complete lists elsewhere, I'm arguing for a severe pruning of the list: see Talk:Wiki software#Huge list of engines considered harmful.
But even orthogonal to that, I think that having ones that use MySQL as a subset is a bit arbitrary: there are many dimensions on which the different engines differ, the most obvious being what language they are written in (although even that is more convenient for list-maintainers than those looking for an engine). The fact that a piece of software uses MySQL rather than, say, PostgreSQL is just a design decision; that it uses a database rather than a set of individual files could be seen as a feature, but is hardly the single most important one. If we really wanted to have lots of categorised lists of wiki engines, we could have a List of wiki software by data storage type or somesuch (one big file vs file-per-page vs MySQL vs PostgreSQL etc). Personally, I think maintaining such a page would be a waste of time, since Wiki:WikiChoicetree already attempts this, and can just be referenced as being the canonical place to find such information. - IMSoP 16:05, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I agree that this page alone seems inappropriate. However, the page you mention is not really interesting. It contains a link to another page with a table on TaviWiki, but that one isn't much better. I think there's a need for a quality Wiki choosing resource.--Chealer 06:01, 2004 Nov 17 (UTC)
- On the basis that this is an encyclopaedia, not an exhaustive list of everything ever, I'm happy for the page to go, perhaps deferring to the c2com wiki. Currently, removal of links from this page is totally arbitrary, which doesn't make sense BenedictPoole 10:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article moved
I've moved "Wiki engines using MySQL" to "List of wiki software" as we should not classify Wiki software according to DBMS. Minghong 10:48, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC) Type in plain english
[edit] Removal of external links on entries that do have an existing wikipedia article
For those who didn't notice, I would like to kindly point out that minghong in his edit on 10:15, 2005 May 8, with an edit summary reading Keep the lists sorted in the same edit action also removed all external links on all entries where a wikipedia article exists on this lists.
What do you all think about that removal of said external links? -- Adrian Buehlmann 21:26, 2005 May 9 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia, not a repository of links. IMHO there are already enough directories.--Hhielscher 12:11, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] More wikis...
In case everyone agrees that there ought to be _some_ sort of wiki listing, here's a few more (link broken on purpose to avoid referrals):
h t t p:// the.taoofmac.com/space/OtherWikis
[edit] Adding external links to Articles erased
Wiki on a Stick has been erased after an AFD review. Would someone edit it's content to give an external link to the software's home page? Also, GetWiki is currently under AFD review, so it also may need an external link within a few days.
- No. Thise which are not significant for their own articles are not significant enough for inclusion. And WP:NOT a link farm. Guy 22:59, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Correction needed
The Wiki link to Riki is wrong. It leads to Iván Sánchez-Rico Soto. There needs to be some kind of disambiguation or something... Capeboy 22:27, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
"Seaside, a web-design framework similar to Rails." That is not true they differ very much RoR is a pretty conventional framework even a bit conservative compared to some java frameworks. But seaside is a very different and technically interesting approach.
[edit] Wiki software history diagram?
It would be great if someone could draw a wiki software history diagram similar to this one for Unix: Image:Unix-history.svg. --Teratornis 02:27, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
