No. I am not changing from blogs to WiKi. This page stays. So are the rest of my blogs. They are my precious babies, each operating/surviving with its own conscious mind..

I didn’t say “from blogging to WiKi.” Rather, I said, “blogware”. There is a difference there.

To cut that short, I have been looking for an appropriate Wiki engine for my website.

How that whole idea began was that I had been trying to study for job interviews. I haven’t get my resume quite together yet. But I do have to multitasking quite a lot (work, friends, parents, job hunting, study for interview, and my precious never ending development website) to get everything going at the same time.

Then I realized, how little did I know about WiKi, and how difficult it is to choose the right one!

I once wrote a blog about choosing a blogware for my site. I read reviews, installed, played with, and uninstalled WordPress, b2, b2evolution, plog, TextPattern, Serendipity, and Nucleus. I finally settled with WordPress. No more hunting around. It’s just too time and energy consuming.. Actually I much prefer plog and TextPattern, but I had quite some problems with plog’s template installation and uninstallation because I do not have root privilege.. Long story.

I thought I had learned my lesson. Unfortunately, I didn’t.

Wiki opened up another big knowledge hole in me. I got sucked in almost immediately, digging and poking at different choices, looking for reviews and comparisons websites. What I found was:
A list of Wiki Engines, equivalent to 17 printed pages!

This sounds more dreadful than the experience of looking for a blogware!

So far I have tried DokuWiki. It has a very simple and nice interface, WYSIWYG for editing, backtrack, revision history, doesn’t require a database. Only problem I have so far is making it to run under Linux when I do not have root privilege. Once again, I am stuck.

I am not going to list all the wikis that I am going to try this time. I have a few more in mind. Perhaps I will write a little review and comparison of the ones I try next time. =)