Dear Kathryn, Andrew, Mark, Oliver, Jan, Pierre, Joshua, and Marc,<br><br>Thank you for your replies which are helpful and educational I'll keep the group posted on discussions. <br><br>From my point of view, PmWiki was easy to set up and is easy to maintain. Support is excellent.
<br><br>I particularly appreciate the potential to customize wikigroups and hope to continue to explore what is possible with that. May venture into farming as well.<br><br>Language support is strong in many respects. This is critical for us in the longterm. Some concerns:
<br>* I do hope that utf-8 support will improve. (An initial brief experiment with adding that option was not so positive.) Text displays beautifully as is, but all non ISO-8859-1 characters are turned into dec codes, which is not ideal for editing. And I would like to set up some more in extended Latin scripts and Ethiopic/Ge'ez.
<br>* Similarly RTL/bidi support for Arabic, though I know this is being worked on. Words display fine but text alignment and behavior when LTR text is inserted are problems. <br><br>It would also be helpful if there were a section/paragraph edit feature especially on long pages (if it exists as an add-on I have not found it).
<br><br>Thanks again.<br><br>Don<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Donald Z. Osborn</b> <<a href="mailto:dzosborn@gmail.com">dzosborn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've asked this before without getting
any echo, but since there are some folks who have apparently switched
to PmWiki from other wiki software, I'm interested to hear what their
rationale was and what they feel about their experience since.<br><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br>I
ask because there are people with whom I am in contact who have made
intimations about the quality of MediaWiki. On the latter I like it a
lot (per use in Wikipedia) and don't disagree, but I also like PmWiki a lot due to its adaptability among other things. Frankly PmWiki was easier to set up than
some others I looked into a couple of years ago, but that is probably
not a factor for people switching to it...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Anyway, any feedback is welcome. "Case studies" may be useful in future discussions. TIA.</p>
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