Hampshire Linux Users Group

There are numerous choices of wiki software. MediaWiki is the software used to power Wikipedia, which is very powerful and scalable, but the familiarity of the software tends to push users towards treating the wiki like an encyclopaedia. This may or may not be what you want.

Closer to the classical WikiWikiWeb, MoinMoin is very popular especially among open-source documentation wikis.

This website used to run UseModWiki, which is a simple Perl wiki script. UseMod lacks many of the features provided by other wikis, and has received bugfixes only [continued…]

I'm not going to discuss here how to handle the simple mechanics of getting PGP (or GnuPG) to manage keys. Neither am I going to go through the basics of public key cryptography. I'll leave that for others to do, and assume here that you know about both of those. (If you want to know more about setting up GPG and how it works, try the mini-howto. Instead, I want to describe the steps that people normally go through to sign someone else's key, and why all of those steps should be done.

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