[cgiapp] Future of the wiki

[P Kishor]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Lyle <webmaster at cosmicperl.com> wrote:
> Mark Fuller wrote:
>> Someone said:
>>
>>
>>> Something like Google Groups that was open source would certainly be
>>> nice.
>>>
>>
>> I like phpbb. It's heavy, but it's the most widely used forum
>> software. The older I get, the more I subscribe to the ancient Chinese
>> proverb: 10 million flies can't be wrong.
>>
>
> I personally loathe Perl sites that use PHP.
>
>


Yea, I concur. And 99% of PHP sites are ugly to boot. In fact, even
Perl-based sites are almost always nicer looking than PHP. ;-)

Actually, a cgi-app based wiki that is light-weight, using flat files
or sqlite as the backend, and jQuery on the front end, with JSON for
data back-and-forth, and a modular design would be a really nice
development. As mentioned earlier, there is already a CGI::Wiki that
has now morphed into Wiki::Toolkit. I am not sure how well used or
maintained it is... might be a nice base to start with, although I
wonder why its name was change... keeping in with the philosophy of
cgi plugins, a CGI::Application::Plugin::Wiki and an optional
CGI::Application::Plugin::Forum and CGI::Application::Plugin::Blog
would be great. Recaptcha could be used for stopping spammers.




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Puneet Kishor