[M-dev]Re: wiki

[Bob C. <bo...@ch...>]

I'd like to offer my own two cents on this.  After reviewing all three 
wikis and talking online to Bill and Appleswitch, this is what I've 
found:

The wiki at http://marathon.sf.net/cgi-bin/edit-awki.cgi:
- is small and concise
- has a very simple interface that I find restrictive and not user 
friendly
- is hosted at sourceforge
- specializes in articles of a technical nature

The wiki at http://zdome.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page:
- has the most articles
- seems to have had the most work put into it thus far
- uses the same layout and syntax of wikipedia (mediawiki), the largest 
wiki in the world
- is hosted at zdome, which isn't directly related to Marathon or 
Sourceforge

The new wiki at http://alephwiki.appleswitch.com/index.php/Main_Page:
- has the most customized theme, made to resemble source.bungie.org
- was created with development in mind
- is hosted at appleswitch.com, which is only peripherally associated 
with Marathon
- uses the same layout and syntax of wikipedia

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To my mind, what's good enough for the largest encyclopedia in the 
world is good enough for our own wiki.  This means that a 
mediawiki-based wiki is preferable.  It is also preferable to host the 
wiki at a fast and reliable location, and sourceforge sounds like the 
ideal place.  Finally, aesthetically the wiki would be best if it 
looked like source.bungie.org, since some people would like to use the 
wiki as a sort of alternative to updating source.bungie.org.  I don't 
know if this last point is still important to many people or not.  In 
any case, it sounds to me like the best thing to do, would be to start 
with MaraWiki's database, transfer it to a sourceforge domain, apply 
appleswitch's theme, and merge in leftover, nonduplicated information 
from the other 2 wikis (we're talking about a dozen articles).