[Cialug] Wiki Task Tracking

[Matthew Nuzum]

I've not used mediawiki much, instead my organization uses the python based
moin moin. I've found it very easy to create plugins and modules and have
done things like you've described. We have created a graphviz plugin so that
it will show a graphviz chart in the page. Also we've created "formatters"
which are plugins that modify the outputs of blocks of wiki markup
surrounded by {{{    }}}.

Some people in my company have created external packages for talking to
moin, for example "editmoin" available at <http://labix.org/editmoin>,
though I've seen or heard of other tools people have thrown together.

I have to ask, are you sure that a wiki is the right tool for the job? I
love the easy editing that a wiki provides, but for highly structured
content you start to loose the benefits of a wiki and you might gain by
using a CMS that provides a decent development platform.

I'm excited about the wave of rapid development tools out there (my favorite
is Django but Ruby on Rails, Cake and Symphony are all in the same boat). I
can whip out a complete web application in Django in 3 - 4 hours which
includes an admin interface and input validation. I get a real database
backend and my admin forms have helpful explanatory text next to each form
field so people don't have to fuss with special wiki formatting or markup.

I think its fun to hack on the wiki but as I move forward I'm solving these
types of problems with simple web applications built with django.

On Jan 20, 2008 7:52 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to set up a wiki that my team can use to track a variety of things
> like:
>
> 1) System statuses ("Intranet is down" "database will be down
> Wednesday night" etc)
> 2) Employee availability ("Todd has PTO Tuesday, Jan 29")
> 3) Various notes ("if a client has problems with this app,
> such-and-such has been fixing it lately")
>
> I need the tool to be flexible and I want all team members to update
> it regularly.  Right now, that's all I know.  I've set up Mediawiki at
> home, and installed a calendar plugin.  That's pretty nifty.  I'll
> probably need a calendar for this work wiki, but I'm not sure about
> how I'm going to set this up.  I'm still mentally working on a
> pre-alpha architecture.  (Read: wtf am I doing?)  Anybody have any
> suggestions or anecdotes?
>
> -todd
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