Today I finally found the time to install and test the OW2 wiki. The basic idea sounds very promising: a wiki with build in support for tagging.

Installation:
Installation took less than 10min, create a DB, import a sample DB, edit 2 files. As promised everything was working and the start page welcomed me with

To try and log on, you may want to log on as:
* Admin (password test)
* zebru (password hello)

This is nice, but after playing around as Admin I tried to change the password, but this seemed impossible via the web interface. The password is stored in plain text in the database, so it is possible to change it, but this should be easier.

Log out and click on the “create user” link. This left me with this error message:

Warning: Failed opening ’skins/default.osk’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/share/pear’) in /var/www/ow2wiki/userManager.php on line 286

this change fixed the problem:

286c286
< include( “skins/$skin/template.osk” );
—
> include( “skins/$skin.osk” );

Wiki markup

The only documentation about possible markup is this short example in the sandbox:

La sandbox è lo spazio in cui fare le proprie prove….
prova
prova provata

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This is where I stopped because I didn’t want to waste any more time on a tool which has IMHO a neat idea but still very far away from being easily usable.