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The NewsForge reviews UseModWiki, a business collaborative wiki project.
Wiki software implements the simple idea that Web pages should be easy, even trivial, to create, and that anyone reading the page should be able to correct, improve, revise and add to the page. Wikis (the word means "quick" in Hawaiian) have become popular on the World Wide Web. With simple formatting rules to make it easy to build well-organized hyperlinked pages, a wiki becomes an efficient means of creating a Web site. One worthwhile wiki for business collaboration is Clifford Adam's UseModWiki.
UseModWiki is a single Perl script that can be deployed on any Web server that supports CGI scripting. It keeps its data in simple flat files (no database back end required) using modules that are part of the standard Perl installation. As a result, the overhead in terms of preparing a machine to run your wiki is quite low.
You can downloadUseModWiki from the project's Web site in the form of a small (63KB) tar file that contains the primary Perl script (wiki.pl) and a few other related files. The installation instructions are straightforward and consist mainly of placing the wiki.pl script in suitable location on your Web server and editing it and an optional configuration file to set your site-specific behavior. Full review
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