[cgiapp] Future of the wiki

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, David Kaufman wrote:

> Mark Stosberg wrote:
>> Perhaps the wiki would be more interesting to use if we used a
>> different wiki engine. Kwiki is written in Perl, but certainly never
>> took off [...] There was some interest in building a wiki based on
>> CGI::Application, but that hasn't materialized.
>
> I think a cgi-app based wiki would be an awesome idea.  I must not have
> been paying attention when it was last discussed or I'd certainly have
> volunteered to help with that.
>

I believe what Mark is referring to is Stinki -- the Simple TItaNium wiKI 
which I mentioned to him at YAPC-NA last year.  I began renovating 
CGI::Wiki::Simple which Lyle found on CPAN.  And then I got distracted and 
forgot about it.  So today I put it up on github, you may find it at

http://github.com/jaldhar/App-Stinki

It will need a few more things before it can be used as the cgi-app.org 
wiki.

* Authentication and authorization facilities.  Should be easy with
   C::A::P::authentication and C::A::P::authorization

* better templates.

* A Wiki::Toolkit::Formatter plugin  for whatever wiki syntax we want to
   use.  (May already exist.)

* possibly other plugins for features in the current wiki.

I can possibly start working on it again in a couple of weeks time but in 
the mean time if someone wants to, have at it.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>