[pmwiki-users] Decision to make more use of PmWiki
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Sep 28 21:28:50 CDT 2006
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:44:29PM -0400, Donald Z. Osborn wrote:
> I've decided to try to use PmWiki more extensively in my evolving project
> website.
I highly commend you on your decision. :-) :-)
> From what I understand of the PmWiki system, wikigroups will be more
> appropriate for our needs than wikifarms (crosssearching being a major
> issue). However there are 2 quick questions. First, if I understand
> correctly there is no problem going over 50 wikigroups?
No problem whatsoever. On the TAMUCC "student wiki", every student
enrolled in the First Year Program is given a separate wiki group and
expected to enter pages in the group. Currently that one wiki
site has over 6000 separate wikigroups. (No, that's not a typo.)
> Second, I understand one can use different skins on different groups, but
> how about different languages? Mainly concerned about French and
> Portuguese, but others, including RTL scripts (Arabic, and very possibly
> the world's first N'ko wiki [it's in Unicode 5.0]), are possible.
Sure, each group can have a separate language. See, for example,
the way that pmwiki.org has configured different languages for
different groups:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWikiFr
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWikiDe
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWikiJa
I don't really know how well things will work with
RTL scripts, but it'd be very interesting to find out (and I'll
be glad to add core support where needed if I can).
Pm
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