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… To put it short: an Ikiwiki newbie.

Wikis

Currently, I run a couple of Ikiwiki instances. Namely:

  • http://lhc.am-1.org/lhc/ — to hold random stuff written by me, my colleagues, students, etc.

  • http://rsdesne.am-1.org/rsdesne-2010/ — for some of the materials related to the “Remote Sensing in Education, Science and National Economy” (2010-03-29 … 2010-04-10, Altai State University) program I've recently participated in as an instructor.

Preferences

I prefer to use Lynx along with Emacs (via emacsclient) to work with the wikis. (Note the “Local variables” section below.)

The things I dislike in the wiki engines are:

  • the use of home-brew specialized version control systems — while there're a lot of much more developed general purpose ones;

  • oversimplified syntax — which (to some extent) precludes more sophisticated forms of automated processing; in particular, this forces one to reformat the material, once complete, to, say, prepare a book, or an article, or slides.

Out of all the wiki engines I'm familiar with, only Ikiwiki is free of the first of these. I hope that it will support more elaborate syntaxes eventually.


Local variables:
mode: markdown
coding: utf-8
fill-column: 64
ispell-dictionary: "american"
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