This lists lots (all) of the Wikis: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines Use Emacs for editting! http://zwiki.org/EmacsAndWiki That whole WebLog thing...? SpamBot detection, freezing out users that pull too many pages too quickly (worth it? Worth anything? I'd *want* Google to be able to go through the pages) Inline inclusion of other wiki pages There's a ton of possible widgets: `Twiki plugins`_ .. _Twiki plugins: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/WebHome IE allows WYSIWYG HTML editing. `Some comments`_ `My WebOS`_ had some stuff along these lines, perhaps (they are now gone -- links to archive.org of them) `MS Wiki`_ also does this. .. _Some comments: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WysiwygWiki .. _My WebOS: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mywebos.com .. _MS Wiki: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?MsWiki `Open Wiki`_ might be of interest in terms of XML backend and diffs. .. _Open Wiki: http://openwiki.com/ RSS feeds. I'm not sold on making the Wiki the central metaphor for everything... WebLogs and external feeds might be overdoing it. InterWiki_ (or inter-site) linking: http://openwiki.com/ow.asp?InterWiki -- I think this *does* kind of belong, since linking is central to Wiki-ness. BreadCrumbs_ of some sort...? Not being naturally hierarchical, this is subtle. Base it on navigation (I believe OpenWiki_ might), or annotated (like TWiki). .. _OpenWiki: http://openwiki.com/ Attachments? I have better ideas with hierarchical Wikis... (i.e., non-HTML/XML pages, and a page can become a SubWiki) Nice diffing, like: http://openwiki.com/ow.asp?p=OpenWiki&a=diff&difffrom=146 Branches in versioning (?): http://openwiki.com/ow.asp?p=OpenWiki&a=changes RDF -- totally right for Wiki. Special Wiki RDF extensions: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?ModWiki -- somehow related to RSS? Page aliases -- e.g., for plural versions of a term. UseModWiki_ has some stuff with subpages. .. _UseModWiki: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?UseModWiki Automatically notice homonyms, e.g. GroupNameReuse, ReuseGroupName: StrikiWiki_ The `whole wiki interface`_ weirds me out. But maybe that means there something novel there...? Actually, it just seems to have a wacked-out interface (hint: hit the arrows, *not* the heading words), potentially a rich navigation (if it was more intuitive) .. _StrikiWiki: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?StrikiWiki .. _whole wiki interface: http://ch.twi.tudelft.nl/~mostert/striki/teststriki.pl Manila_ might have some interesting ideas -- more CMSish. Ditto PARC's Sparrow_ .. _Manila: http://manila.userland.com/ .. _Sparrow: http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/sparrow/ SWiki_ is a popular branch of Wikiness... still trying to find what's novel about it... maybe not a lot. But they're working on it...? .. _SWiki: http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu/myswiki/1 AtisWiki_ allows multiple formats for input. But it's kind of gone -- very early offshoot of WikiWiki. .. _AtisWiki: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?AtisWiki ZWiki's remote URLs kind of elegant: http://zwiki.org/RemoteWikiLinks http://tavi.sourceforge.net/ -- I think it is actually expanding the textarea width to my screen? -- IanBicking_ - 13 Apr 2002
I would like to see a CMS that handles standard HTML documents or at least standard HTML document bodies. I could use this in a couple projects, although none that's urgent to start right away. The thing is, when ppl already know HTML, or you're dealing with outside authors that have already written an HTML article, it's easier to use that as your source rather than insisting on some "pure" XML or wiki format. Yes, it causes complications for converting the article body to another format later... IF that ever becomes an issue for the particular application. Maybe it won't. A flexible CMS with a configuration option to accept only HTML format, or only wiki format, or the author's choice, or both in one document, would be the best. It would also help to have an option of "accept the source format without conversion and serve it as is without touching its internal structure" alongside "convert the source document to an in-between format so it's easy to reconvert into any output format." -- MikeOrr_ - 14 Apr 2002