Plone - Community Plumbing - or Just Content Managment !

Raphael Ritz r.ritz at biologie.hu-berlin.de
Wed Dec 12 15:35:15 UTC 2007


Paul Roeland wrote:
> Nynke Kruiderink wrote:
>> T The ones we are planning to use are:
>>   * Zwiki
>>   * Quills
>>   * Tagging
>>   * Bookmarking
>>   * PloneProfiles
>>   * PloneBookmarklets
>>
> 
> Just a quick remark: I'd stay well clear of Zwiki, it has a bit of a 
> history of being difficult to maintain across upgrades.

I don't think that's a fair statement today.
While it might have been like that in the past
Simon (who maintains Zwiki) has been very
cooperative when it comes to Plone integration.

Zwiki is actually quite remarkable in as much as it is
a stand-alone Zope (2) product that in addition to that
also integrates into Plone. We don't have much of that
kind. (all the contrary: we have add-ons that are more
troublesome than Zwiki).

> Plone 3 comes 
> with built-in wiki-like-functionality (called "Wicked") which is a lot 
> cleaner in implementation, and is more or less officially sanctioned as 
> a core part of Plone now.
> 

This is of course all true ;-)
but Zwiki in trying to be feature rich and usable
out of the box comes with a whole feature set that
you wouldn't get as easily in Plone today (like support
for a  variety of more special/advanced source formats
- thinking of LaTeX here - or the option to subscribe
to individual pages or entire wikis, the history and
diff views are maybe nicer ... - on the other
hand Plone is catching up in many respects here)

So it really depends on your needs and preferences,

Raphael


> Paul Roeland





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