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Does anyone know of a FOSS alternative to mediawiki?
Specifically I'm looking for the in-built features of granular access control, a hierarchy of pages users can navigate, and more easy to use than mediawiki.
Well, there's Dokuwiki. It's very nice, and it's my Wiki of choice. It is supposed to provide granular access control; I have never really worked with it, however, and my impression is it's not that great (I can be wrong, though, I've never really examined it).
Building hierarchies of pages is easy though, and showing a navigation structure too, using the indexmenu plugin.
I find the setup of a fresh Dokuwiki to be a bit cumbersome at times, but the everyday work is very easy and straightforward. I do not know Mediawiki that well so I can't compare, but if you are looking at Wikis, Dokuwiki is definitely something to look at.
There's also the WikiMatrix, a comprehensive comparison of a huge number of Wikis, incidentally built and run by the author of DokuWiki.
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Is there any resource of how mysql's source code (https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server) works?
Any flow diagrams related to code's folders and files.
The official docs includes a section called MySQL Internals. There are sections included about navigating the source tree and what is where.
If you can look past his blatant towing of the company line (e.g. his apparent claims that the "real" MySQL will always be better and more awesome than MariaDB or Percona, because... Oracle!) and that he seems to imply that if you make any change to the source, you have to give those changes to Oracle and should probably send them a bunch of money, too... then there is some good material to be found in a book called Expert MySQL, which includes a decent low-level view of how it works and code snippets walking you through some source code tweaks to add new functionality.
But, there is a large amount of in-line documentation embedded in the code itself.
how "source code works"? it is in sources i guess
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B
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Is there a decent website or service out there where developers can propose a new idea for an open source project (regardless of language) and have the community vote it up / down, form teams, and do everything that precedes writing the first line of code?
There is the SomeBodyMakeThis reddit. Also, project sites like SourceForge allow you to create a project which is in the "planning" stage. Often, this is used by people who think they have a good idea and want somebody else to make it for them.
Kind of like Kickstarter (for funding), SourceForge (for hosting), or an IdeaStorm (for brainstorming and community feedback)? The Apache Foundation, or the Horde project (for incubating a plethora of related projects)? It really depends on to what your idea relates. Try joining one of the relevant extant open-source communities and sounding off on your idea.
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Is there any open source user-guide type creation software available? Or is it best to use wiki type systems? We want to be able to create user guides on the fly through a web front end and accessible on the net. Or is this best achieved using Wikis?
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I use MediaWiki for a user-guide and help page at my company, and it works really well!
Create custom namespaces for different parts, and if you want to have access controls you can create different groups.
The extensions are great, because you can always find one to do anything you want (ie. print to PDF for an offline copy)
I'd strongly recommend using Wikis. As long as your chosen one's markup covers your needs, it's ideal for user guides.
This post is not 100% on topic - it's about creating user manual for the workplace (as opposed to the software) - but many ideas are still worth reading.
This is a good guide for using Wiki in knowledge sharing.
http://www.futurechanges.org/patterns/
We have used Wikispaces.com to create manuals and guides for several projects. Especially if you are a non-profit with a K-12 educational mission, then current setup for a Wikispace includes Private Projects so you can evolve documentation and make it public when it's appropriate to do so.
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My apologies if this is too subjective of a question.
I have a theory about wiki design; specifically, how a particular change to the model embodied by the wiki software would make the wiki revision process more closely resemble the open-source development process and thereby reap benefits that the current wiki model does not.
I would like to develop a proof-of-concept of this modified wiki design by finding an existing wiki package that I can alter. However, it's hard for me to find the optimum balance between the features I need and what my programming skills are actually up to.
I need wiki software that:
is open-source. This is a pretty non-negotiable requirement because otherwise I won't be able to test any modified version under real-world conditions.
implements revisions according to the standard wiki model.
implements security-protected user accounts. The security does not have to be defense-agency-grade, but it does have to take reasonable steps to see that no one can access the abilities available to an account except the owner of that account. (It's great if the software also allows anonymous and/or IP-based editing, but not crucial.)
is as simple and clean in design as possible. It's an extra bonus if it's written in Python or a similarly user-friendly language.
is as fully-featured as possible within the above constraints.
What do you recommend?
MoinMoin seems to meet your requirements (it's in Python, and under GPL; it's pretty feature-rich, including access control as you require).
Do you like Wikipedia? If so go for http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki It is PHP
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I'm in the process of setting up a new website which would greatly benefit from having user-forums.
Since I already have user accounts, and profile details, stored away it seems that I'd benefit from choosing an open-source forum package which I could modify so that logins were tested against my existing database.
Right now all my site is Perl-based, and looking around I don't see many great Perl forums - the only obvious one I could find which is featureful is yabb - but that is written to authenticate against flat files and to be frank the code is nasty.
If I need to use a PHP solution then so be it, but first are there any simple forums that are written in perl that you'd suggest? I'd expect to have different forum-groups and nominate particular users as moderators. More than that I don't need, just basic threading and an attractive appearance.
Really simple forums are often really insecure forums. If you're determined to use perl, a major web forum doesn't come to mind, and if your competent in security I'd say roll your own. You could even release it to the open source community to help people like you. I know there are several great PHP ones out there that aren't so insecure an rather well developed.
I seem to remember that Drupal had a reasonable fit as a module.