Re: [Phpwiki-talk] PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Oliver Betz schrieb:
> are there any reasons why I should _not_ switch to MediaWiki?

A lot of wiki's switched lately from phpwiki to mediawiki. the reason is 
the missing stability in phpwiki.
supporting more platforms, databases, auth+perms, our rich abstraction 
and better plugin integration has its price.

> For example: which important features of PhpWiki are not available in 
> MediaWiki?
> 
> One might be that MediaWiki needs a SQL database where PhpWiki 
> supports dbm or even flatfile. But this seems to be available even 
> 
> AFAIS, there are no page permissions in MediaWiki?

featurewise has mediawiki about 70% of phpwiki.

no abstraction for database, parsing and presentation. and helper libs.
just mysql support, which is known to be good only for read-only and 
otherwise very slow.
page and group permissions, no pagetypes, no markup versioning, ...
mediawiki is a big hack, look at the source, but it works fine.

mediawiki adds arbitrary positional tags (span div), which we didn't want.
they invented their own syntax, which was against all existing wikis, 
similar to tikiwiki.

> Any reasons why somebody _should_ switch to MediaWiki?

stability, more users, more developers.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/