Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki

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

mi...@ha... schrieb:
> Reini Urban writes:
>>> Any reasons why somebody _should_ switch to MediaWiki?
>> stability, more users, more developers.
> 
> You won't get this kind of public confession from a proprietary software 
> vendor  :-)  hats off to you.
 >
> Anyway, I just would like to use this opportunity to say thanks to the 
> developers of phpwiki. Indeed I suffered from numerous bugs in 1.3.10, 
> but I've upgraded to the latest CVS, and it looks fine now.
> I used phpwiki to power the information centre on Aceh - the area which 
> suffered the most from the recent tsunami disaster :
> http://aceh.abangadek.com/index.php/EN_HomePage

Whow! This makes my month!

Also my hats off to the wikipedia content folks, who managed to bring 
better and deeper information about this tragedy and background than all 
other commercial and government media!
I've never read that much wikipedia and wikinews than in the last week. 
esp. about Aceh, the Tamil Tigers and the Kongo War. That's the main 
reason why I was paralysed and couldn't to fix the latest CVS problems. 
(new locale detection, latest redirect and session crashes.)

> phpwiki has enabled me to develop this rapidly alone, and then enable 
> others to join me later without much problem. Also it's flexible and can 
> accommodate many needs (the nature of wiki really)
> Who knows, your software may actually save lives.

Good to hear!

Who knows, maybe they stop their war now also. It may sound harsh, but 
the civil war in Sri Lanka and Aceh concerns me more than the Tsunami. 
You cannot really do a lot against Tsunami's in your region (the coast 
is far too near for an effective warning), but you can do something 
against the ongoing war and improve now communication between the 
conflicting parties and the poor uninvolved parties. The current state 
of affairs concerns me lot. I cannot sleep well. Which in return 
affected phpwiki development.

And I fear that like in Lissabon 1755 (which harmed liberalism a lot) 
this might lead again to meta-physical problems. Thanksfully your people 
are not that stupid than those american folks here:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Radical_Group_declares_Tsunami_punishment_from_God
Buddhist and Islamic religion might be more down to earth. Well, I hope so.

BTW: You might want to include the wikipedia links to the various 
bittorrent video zip's.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/