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This website has had several incarnations. First, we had hand-crafted web pages. Then, for a while we used GeekLog. For several years, we used TikiWiki. Since late summer 2006, we are using PmWiki.

Why, you might ask, did I settle (at least for now) on PmWiki? Here are some of my reasons for selecting PmWiki:

  1. It uses simple text files to store the wiki content (i.e., as opposed to using a database like MySQL)
  2. It is written in PHP (I understand PHP)
  3. The PmWiki Philosophy
  4. It is easy to install
  5. It is very easy to upgrade even after customizing / personalization
  6. It is very easy to customize
  7. It does not come with a huge bundle of features I don’t want
  8. There are a huge bunch of add-ons that I can pick and choose from
  9. If none of the add-ons do what I want, it is easy (for a PHP programmer) to add or extend functionality
  10. Of course, because it’s free (both in cost and license philosophy) and open source
  11. Simple but effective authorization mechanism
  12. Very active user community (pmwiki-users email list)
  13. Very active, responsive, helpful, friendly author

By the way, I found out about PmWiki at wikimatrix.org by using their “Choice Wizard”.


It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain
Following the Equator, 1897

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