Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. This means that it is easier to back up and migrate, but doesn’t scale well.

Dokuwiki was designed for small scale installations, primarily documentation and such.  The one feature that makes my day: draft autosave! I love it! One drawback is that the syntax of Dokuwiki is different than MediaWiki, and so the more I use it, the more I forget when I use MediaWiki. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki. I also use it installed on my home desktop, for notes, journaling and the like. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files.

Anyway, it’s worth checking out.

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