[R-wiki] Summary of the discussion before creation of R-sig-wiki

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 1/18/06, Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> Another problem is: which Wiki engine to choose and which features to
> propose. Indeed, there are more than 30 different wiki engines, and they
> range from simplistic one (like Tipiwiki, for instance), to very
> elaborate ones (like MediaWiki, the Wikipedia engine; Trac, a complete
> solution to follow software development with bug tracking and
> collaborative documentation writting in Wiki format; or TWiki, a very
> capable, but rather complex Wiki engine used in many big companies). The
> Web site http://www.wikimatrix.org/ is excellent to compare most popular
> Wiki engines. Using this tool, and after a couple of trials, I settled
> on DokuWiki: both simple enough (PHP only, plain text files) and
> powerful (and also completelly customizable/expandable through plugins).

Not sure if this changes anything but the version 4.0 beta of twiki claims
that it has "much simpler" installation:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/twiki/?branch_id=46424&release_id=217318