[Modcaml] Evaluating Cocanwiki

[Martin Jambon]

Hello,

Some bioinformaticians including myself want to create a rather
important and central wiki about "methods in bioinformatics". So I have a
couple of questions before I choose the wiki engine that we will use:

- what are the main reasons which led to the development of Cocanwiki,
besides demonstrating that OCaml can be used at least to power its own
websites?

- are there any plans of adding lots of features (until it becomes the
best wiki engine)? or should we just use Mediawiki? (I did not try to
install any wiki software yet, so I am very naive)

Additional features we would love to have are:
- discussion pages (in parallel to each document page)
- math (latex) formulas
- automatic table of contents
- automatic bibliography
- preview before saving
- user/contributor pages
- visitor and contributor statistics (possibly public)
- PDF export

Actually all of this does no seem to be too difficult after all for an
OCaml programmer. Any feature that depends on external software could be
made optional.

So is it a good idea if I start implementing these or should I just choose
an existing wiki engine that already has almost everything but is not
written in OCaml? What do you think?


Thanks,

Martin

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Martin Jambon, PhD
http://martin.jambon.free.fr