In case you haven’t noticed yet, Stu’s got a nice forum set up. While he’s fiddling with MT and his new forum, I’m trying hard to figure out how to install a Wiki on my site.
Some of you may be asking yourselves, “What the heck is a Wiki?” Well, a wiki is a site where anyone can edit any page at any time. Now before you start asking all the obvious questions, let me direct your attention to a few pages that might help you understand what I’m talking about.
Check out WhyWikiWorks and WikiGettingStartedFaq.
One very successful wiki is the Wikipedia, a free, open encyclopedia. They have over 160,000 entries and it reads just like any other good encyclopedia. I would probably trust it to provide information for my next research paper, even though it’s been written and revised entirely by ordinary web-surfers!
Anyway, there are a ton of WikiEngines out there, but I think I found the one I want to use. It’s called WikkiTikkiTavi. It uses PHP and MySQL, and (supposedly) every page validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict. You can also specify where it should look for the stylesheet, which means I can customize the layout of the page to my heart’s content.
Unfortunately, installing ‘Tavi requires shell access, which I don’t have. Actually, I’ve read through the installation directions about five times, and I think I’ve found ways around almost all of the command line stuff. I probably won’t install it for a couple of days (because I know it will be a big project), but I think I’ve got a rough plan for how I’m going to do it. Wish me luck!