[wiki-research] Wiki Engines as CMS

[Filippo A. Salustri]

"Themability" seems to be a key distinguishing characteristic of wikis.  I 
don't think this characteristic necessarily violates the spirit of wikis, but 
I can envision how 'gratuitous themability' could lead to exactly one of the 
same problems that wikis address - the apparently random layout of different 
but related web pages.

EG: my very germinal wiki almost always looks like 
http://deseng.ryerson.ca/xiki/Main/WebHome, but with relatively little 
munging, I can also do my quasi-blog (http://deseng.ryerson.ca/xiki/Blog/WebHome)

In this case, to me at least, the differences make sense, because the basic 
purposes of the blog and the rest of my wiki are entirely different.

Just 2 cents.
Cheers.
Fil

Andreas Gohr wrote:
> Chuck Smith writes:
> 
>> Anyway, I think it might be an interesting research project to compare
>> wiki engines from a CMS point of view.  So far I've heard of/seen the
>> following wiki engines used as a CMS:
>>
>> JSPWiki
>> TWiki
>> PmWiki
>>
>>
>> I think MediaWiki would not have the flexibility to run as a CMS, but
>> I could be mistaken.  Are there any other wikis known for being
>> flexible enough to also run as a CMS?  Also, feel free to view the
>> wiki popularity charts (by Google) I made a few months ago:
>> http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/WikiPopularity
> 
> In theory every "themable" Wiki could be used as CMS, but it's easyier 
> in some engines. Many DokuWiki users (including my self) use DokuWiki as 
> CMS for their website. We recently added a feature which allows a user 
> to disable certain Wiki-Typical functions not wanted in a CMS. Eg. a 
> list of old revisions, or the recent changes.
> 
> There are some (slightly outdated) infos available at
> 
> http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:discussion:wiki_cms and
> http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:experiences:websitecms
> 
> Examples of DokuWiki as CMS/Blog:
> 
> http://www.splitbrain.org
> http://www.anci.ch
> http://krone-neuenburg.de
> 
> Especially the last one is interesting because it really looks like an 
> ordinary website used by non-technical folks. Only looking at the 
> HTML-Source will reveal the Wiki-Engine behind it.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Andi
> 
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