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Investigating blogging software

Why not stick with the wiki?

I probably will for my own rough notes here on Wildsong.biz but I need something on http://GEO-CEG.org/

Mostly I want a format that allows me to develop ideas on pages that are not public and then publish them when they are ready to go.

Options

• hosted like "blogger" google again jeez cant get away from them
• roll my own, can you see where this is going

Okay, so it's roll-my-own

My requirements

Workflow management would be great

Database backed? Don't care, text only would be fine

Roles - would be good but not very important

Software

General reference on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog_software I tried a bunch of different packages out and ended up staying with Wordpress.

It is installed but now I need to integrate WP and Mediawiki. I don't want all the Mediawiki URL's to break. I want to have a WP front page with access to the old content undisturbed.

So I guess that means the top level index.php page has to be smart enough to know what to do.

Having single sign on for both systems would be nice but not important since only 2 or 3 people actually do edits in the wiki part. Allowing discussion pages is a big goal.

Wordpress + Mediawiki integration options

Here are some of them.

package	comments	link	updated
Wikiful Mediawiki Bridge		http://wordpress.org/plugins/wikiful/	2013
WPMW		http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WPMW	2013-08-05
WelcomeWiki Lite		http://wordpress.org/plugins/welcomewiki-lite/	2013-12-24
PhotoCommons		http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/PhotoCommons
Wiki Embed	embed any wiki content in wp	http://wordpress.org/plugins/welcomewiki-lite/	2013-08-13 }