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Tontyna

In December 2008 I searched for a small and simple Wiki for internal documentation and decided to use PmWiki.

Since then I'm swapping from loving it to hating it. And funny it is: The reasons why I love it are the ones I hate it for:

• It's file based.
• Seemed to have a lot of useful cookbooks.
• No complicated plugin-system, just include_once your script.
• It's easy to link any markup you want into the markup table and to redirect existing markup to any replacement code you need.

I like the configurability and extensibility on various levels, via PHP, via css, by including pages in pages with conditional markup, by using PageTextVariables - but it's hard not to forget which customizations I applied in which template or did I do that in a php script and where did I define this variable and who is responsible for that effect for heavens sake! (Can't write the documentation of changes I apply as fast as I make them.)

Don't know how long I'll stay with PmWiki. But as long as I do I'll return improvements / discoveries / comments back to PmWiki.

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In September 2009 I updated XAMPP, got PHP 5.3 and PmWiki stopped working properly (see e.g. PITS:01141).

Gave it another try by upgrading to PmWiki 2.2.7 but things became even worse.
Since at the moment I don't have the nerves and the time to explore what's going wrong I ceased from using PmWiki.

Contributions:

thanx to HansB for the above pagelist fmt

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 From: eM 
 Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2026 at 01:01
 Subject: Re: PmWiki recipe MarkupToUnstyled
 To: Simon 

 I don't care.

 Code should be free. No slavery. Nobody creates anything from scratch.

 Even the scratch is embedded in the big bestowal called universe.
 Everything is a blessing, everything is a gift, so how could anybody own anything? 
 Exchange the 'n' with an 'e' and you get the correct word: 'owe'.
 Have to stop myself from becoming too philosophical... ;)

 Don't know nothing about GLP3, probably you meant GPL3? But since I don't care, I don't care.
 When it comes to licensing I'd choose the WTFPL -> https://www.wtfpl.net/
 That means: Do What the Fuck You Want to (sorry for the f-word, but that's the wording of the WTFPL).

 In short: I don't care.
 Tontyna

 Nevertheless: Thank you for asking.

 On 02.04.26 05:58, Simon wrote:
 > thankyou so much.
 > I propose to use the same licence as PmWiki, GLP3.
 >
 > would you be happy for your other recipes to also be licenced under
 > this licence to allow someone to support and improve them in the future
 >
 > much appreciated
 > Simon
 >
 > HandleSourceInSkin - Cookbook - PmWiki
 > https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/HandleSourceInSkin
 > SlimTableOfContents - Cookbook - PmWiki
 > https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/SlimTableOfContents