wiki?

[Beersatron (OP)]

I was wondering if it would be feasible for the forum host to also host a wiki? There are a lot of knowledgeable folks on these boards and it strikes me that all the information could be better correlated in a searchable/organized wiki.

Could try a public wiki to start with and allow everybody access to create/edit pages and hopefully build up a quick group of how-to entries for new folks - like me

On the other hand, I know that part of the fun in playing Aurora is finding out how things work by yourself!

Thoughts?

[welchbloke]

I was wondering if it would be feasible for the forum host to also host a wiki? There are a lot of knowledgeable folks on these boards and it strikes me that all the information could be better correlated in a searchable/organized wiki.

Could try a public wiki to start with and allow everybody access to create/edit pages and hopefully build up a quick group of how-to entries for new folks - like me

On the other hand, I know that part of the fun in playing Aurora is finding out how things work by yourself!

Thoughts?

There was a rules Wiki for a while but it was lost when the site closed down.  Erik has mentioned that, given sufficient interest, he is prepared to resurrect it.
The discussion is here:
http://aurora.pentarch.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=772

[Erik L]

Indeed. I will recreate a wiki for Aurora given sufficient interest

I have looked at some wiki solutions on and off in the past few months to see what would be a good one. If anyone has a suggestion, let me know. Some requirements would be that it handles file uploads (for graphics), and can be secured relatively easily.

[Beersatron (OP)]

You could try http://canvas.riaforge.org/ which is Coldfusion based wiki. I haven't used it myself, but I develop in Coldfusion and the Author of that wiki is very good at what he does - I follow his blog daily.

It is under the Apache License so free to use and from reading his brief description of it you can edit it to add functional content.

I do not know if it comes with image embedding out of the box though and you would need to secure a CF server (we use the Adobe ones for work, but I think there are free editions for 'live' sites out there).

[Erik L]

I'm loading MediaWiki. Biggest points for me were MySQL backend, PHP and the ability to upload files. Once it's installed and configured, I'll post a link to it.