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Does anyone have experience with the wikidot.com service? I'm considering switching this forum and the wiki to it, using a Pro Lite account. It appears to offer all the features we might want, and more, I think, and could simplify a lot of things by combining both project-oriented wiki pages and and timeline-oriented discussions.
No idea how stable it is, but it's been around for a while and from what I can tell it's a nice setup.
Sorry, did not try this one....
Since i never found what i needed with hosting providers i have tried out many different wikis and found "MoinMoin" to be my favourite to which i stick to for 8 years now ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoinMoin
I drive my own (virtual) servers at HostEurope and Hostsharing.net with lots of wikis for different project groups. The problem with hosting your wikis yourself is that you always have to read the lists to fix any security issues, especially for public wikis.
I did not find the time to check professional MoinMoin-Hosters yet but maybe i should...
For me the most important thing about the wiki you choose is the syntax. Once used to it, editing the source with inline formatting is way better than any WYSIWYG-Stuff that messes of your content somehow. I love the Moin-Syntax but the syntax used at Wikidot seems usable, too:
http://www.wikidot.com/doc:wiki-syntax
I like the combination of Wiki and Forum, too! It's still not what i would call "real integration" of both worlds but better than what most others have. Unfortunately many folks are ony pro-forum or pro-wiki and reject the other side...
Thanks for the feedback. There are probably quite a few good choices out there. The most important aspect, as you point out, is to pick a system which has a sufficiently powerful syntax, since the choice of wiki & provider has very long-term implications.
FWIW, I've set up a test area at http://test.jeelabs.org/ - feel free to try it out and experiment as much as you like. Please do, in fact. Because the more we bang on it, the easier it will become to make an informed decision. But keep in mind that it is still all up in the air - it may or may not become the final community site for Jee Labs related stuff. One way to test that setup might be to use it to discuss its pluses and minuses.
Note that to submit posts there or edit that wiki, you need to sign up with a wikidot account. I'm not too fond of that, but with over 450,000 users to date, it would seem that the site is widely used, stable, and secure.
FYI: MakerBot uses Wikidot (http://wiki.makerbot.com)
After the creation and some edits of my first wiki pages i like that thing! SignUp was hassle-free and the short wait for their mail to make it through my greylisting is a very personal limitation i created myself.
Getting real code inside your edit window might be a little too much for users not used to it but for me it is perfect control of the output i want!
You get used to the syntax real fast and don't need to use the mouse and buttons any more if you don't want to!
Feels good!