Really Rapid Review: DekiWiki

This is a really quick review of DekiWiki for those who have done all their research but just want to get some personal experiences;

I have been using DekiWiki for about one and half months now and have been writing extensions (mostly in PHP [my preferred web scripting language]) to integrate our CRM with the Wiki for fun and profit.

So in short;

• + It's not bad for a business orientated wiki. All the features you expect are there. Id say perfect for a non-techie (providing you install with the VMImage).


• + The built in extensions are quite neat and reasonable reliable providing you dont try and do anything too interesting with them.


• + The support on the forum is very friendly and helpful


• + PageBus is very snazzy and allows "live" components on the page to communicate dynamically.


• - It's a hideous Frankenstein mix of C# and PHP. IMHO it doesnt seem to work all that well. Purely PHP would do the same job and give you much more control.


• - In my short time using it, the C# side has been no end of problems causing the whole site to hang, and making building additional extensions a nightmare.


• - Reusing the pre-existing extensions from your own extensions seems at this stage impossible. (At least when writing PHP extensions, perhaps with C# too)


• - Their custom scripting language DekiScript is horrible and seems unneccessary considering its built on top of a much nicer scripting language PHP

So in summary... use it... but only if you don't want to hack extra stuff onto it.