Re: [Hampshire] "Blitz The Wiki" Day!

Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> We did and there were several items:
>
> a) usemod from a security PoV is probably substantially better than
> most PHP apps (both due to the apps and due to PHP)

That's FUD. I believe PHP is atrociously designed and implemented, and that PHP
programmers consist in large part of designers with little experience and
negligible grasp of security, but I don't harbour doubts that it's possible to
write secure web applications with it, given effort and eyeballs.

Usemod is probably worse, on the evidence that the core code hasn't been touched
since 2003.

> b) we have various anti-spam features - especially rollback, these
> would need porting (yes, some wikis have good anti-spam, others less so)

Again, Usemod had minimal spam protection originally. Maintained wiki software
may not be as susceptible to spam out of the box.

> c) we would need to migrate all the pages,

Migration to MoinMoin is now done, passably, on my box.

> people would have to learn
> potentially new syntax (which might be better than usemod syntax
> admittedly)

Usemod is similar to MoinMoin. But there's a WYSIWYG editor included. \o/

> Hacking your CSS so that it works most of the time on usemod was
> less work than all of the above :-)

Yes, I'd agree with that, but it's boring work, and futile in the face of
Internet Explorer's wanton b0rkeness too.

Dan