Using a Wiki

I'm having a great time using dokuwiki. The thing about wikis is they make creating content within a site really, really easy. Check out our Komacke music site. Of course this site is based on wiki software.

What makes wiki software so great? Once you have a wiki deployed (which in and of itself is pretty easy), creating content, pages, etc is really easy. Want to make a new page? Type it in. Page doesn't exist? Click the “create page” button.

A shortcoming is that no wikis seem to come standard with a WYSIWYG editor. However, the idea with a wiki is that it isn't really all that flexible in its formatting. Which is the strength of a wiki. So you write up something, you use the handful of wiki syntax rules, and you've got a new entry that fits the format of all your other entries.

To create this blog entry, I go to my blog summary page, I type in the topic title, and I write up my entry. A summary is automatically made. It's automatically added to the monthly archive. And I've got a specific page for reading and that has a discussion function built in.

That's it. Want to know more? Ask me.