Ian Landsman is Starting From Scratch, July 11, 2006:
Simple Wiki?
If you're in the market for a powerful and user friendly Help Desk solution, please take a look at my company's flagship product HelpSpot.I'm looking for the simplest wiki out there. Simple to use, install, etc. I literally need no features just base wiki functionality. Any suggestions? If it's open source it needs to be in active development. PHP preferred but all others considered. If you know of any like this please let me know.
Discussion
DokuWiki - http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki
Created by Marcus on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
WikiDX is very simple to setup and is written in PHP: http://www.turland.net/
Created by Brian on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
If you're looking for the ultimate in simplicity, you can't beat QwikiWiki. Of course, it might be a little too simple for your needs, but you can't beat the zero-effort installation. 
Created by Chris on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
There is ErfurtWiki (http://erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net/).
You can embed it into commercial apps (no GPL). And it's PHP. Latest version is about a year old.
Created by Torsten Uhlmann on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
I am coming to the party late, but the two obvious-to-me ones that haven't been suggested are phpwiki and mediawiki.
phpwiki (http://http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/) is just stupidly simple. Extract it and it's working with flat files, take another 2 minutes and it's running off mysql or postgre.
Mediawiki (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki), which drives Wikipedia, is also suprisingly to get up and running. Again, just point it at a database and you're pretty much good to go.
Created by Rob Drimmie on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
Thanks for all the feedback everyone! Back when I started this blog I would never have thought I'd be able to ask questions and get so many great responses so quickly. Amazing!
I think I'm going to give pmwiki a shot and see how it goes. I like phpwiki as well since it seems to be a pure clone of the original wiki and truly can't be any simpler, but pm with it's templates seems like it might be a touch easier to integrate into my site. I'll let you know how it goes.
Also more ideas are still welcome of they're out there.
Created by Ian on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
One more note. I just installed pmwiki in about one minute. A very good sign!
Created by Ian on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
Hi Ian,
I agree with you then. Installing Tomcat on linux with apache through mod_jk is not an easy task, even for those familiar with it! That's one thing the apache group really missed to address. If you do a search on mod_jk you'll find many many people completely lost and many different answers to the same thing.
If you don't mind, in a future article, please let us know what you think of PmWiki. I'd be very curious myself. I use confluence locally, but it would be nice to have an additional online version for other things.
Created by Stephane Grenier on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
I've been playing with it for an hour or so and loving it! Really nicely done. The authentication system is a bit whacky but not a big deal for me since I'm mostly using it as a CMS but with the option to open it up down the road. I'll post a fuller report down the line.
Created by Ian on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
Stephane I plan on running it on the UserScape site on one of the dedicated UserScape servers so I'd have to do the Linux Tomcat install and frankly I just don't want Java running on the server because I don't use it for anything else. Otherwise I'd definetly be trying it out. Also I run all Macs in house so no Win machine to test it on other than one that's used for HelpSpot testing.
PM sounds interesting guys I'll definetly check that out.
Created by Ian on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
I second PmWiki. Easy to install. Lots of power, flexibility, add-ons. Solid performer. The filesystem storage is actually a good thing.
Just don't look at the code if you're an OOP purist. You'll have bad dreams.
Created by Evan Wired on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
I ran across http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ not too long ago, it uses CSS, Javascript, and HTML in a single file. I think it is cool, and it just works.
Created by Thomas on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
Personally I use the hosted StikiPad (http://www.stikipad.com). Atlassian provides a personal license of the powerful WIki Confluence for free (http://www.atlassian.com). It's Java based though...
A real simple Wiki is Instiki especially if you're using a Mac (http:///instiki.org).
Created by Lars Fischer on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
We're look at Confluence at the moment (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/) and have been impressed so far. We've been using their other product, Jira, for about 3 months and have been loving it.
They also offer a personal license for free which might suit you at the moment.
Created by Ben Richardson on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
We use stikipad.com for nextny.org - it is pretty simple as you don't have to set anything up.
Created by lee semel on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
Doku looks pretty good. I tried it a long time ago, but it seems to have improved since then.
I'm not a fan of hosted software like stiki. I have a server and bandwidth and backups, etc. So while it looks well done I don't think it's for me especially on a public domain, if it was for internal use or for a project I'd be more open to it.
I don't think I have the heart to get Tomcat running Ben 
It does look very good though.
Created by Ian on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
I'd also suggest Confluence, that's what I use. It's by far the best wiki I've seen in terms of installation, ease of use, and power of what you can do with it.
Created by Stephane Grenier on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
Hi Ian,
I just noticed your tomcat comment. It depends on if you plan on running it on your host or internally. If you run it internally on a private computer, all you need to do to install tomcat on Windows is run an installer (assuming you don't have apache setup on that box as well).
I'd also assume that since you don't care what port it's running on, you don't need to configure it to run with apache. Just append the default :8080 and everything should be good.
Regards,
Steph
Created by Stephane Grenier on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
I like PmWiki and use it myself. It's simple to install and under active development. It also has an active user community for support, plugins, etc.
Depending what you are wanting the only downside may be it's lack of a database - it uses straight text files through the file system, although I haven't found this a problem myself.
Created by Glenn on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
Sorry, I forgot to add an address!
PmWiki: http://www.pmwiki.org/
Created by Glenn on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm
another vote for pmwiki - very simple on the surface, but can be extended
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Created by jpepper on 07.11.2006 3:07 pm