Looking thru the various wiki engines there is one feature that I think might
be quite valuable if you have
the disk space. My group uses a swiki which is actually one of the simplest
of wiki engines but it allows
for uploads of .jpg, .gif & I believe .png files. It might be quite
wonderful to be able to populate the
wiki with illustrations & photographs of various plants, designs, gatherings
etc. I think one could design
that upload to restrict file size to under 30-40K so that none of the pages
would become inaccessible to
people with dialup connections. I also think that a lot of the groundwork
for a permaculture plant database
could be initiated with a wiki environment. But so far, in checking out the
various phpwikis online I havent
seen that feature as a part of any of them.
Another snazzy feature that I dont fully understand is the twiki
implementation which operates with
plug-ins. They have a plugin which allows a group of users to draw simple
shapes & enter text, ie we could
experiment with group design processes or someone that has a layout could put
their map online & make their
design process open territory to all. This seems to be a little more
sophisticated than other wikis & may be
beyond our scope but it sure got the ideas perculating in my head.