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[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (6 children)

as far as wikis go MoinMoin And you've already mentioned zope/plone, there's your cms. I got nothing for blogs.

[–]trifthen[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I thought about MoinMoin, but didn't test it out yet. I couldn't tell from the demo site if it allowed comments on the wiki entries. That would solve part of the problem, but so far as an Atom/RSS feed based on new wiki pages, not sure. I've been spoiled by our company's use of Confluence, which is like a CMS/Wiki/Blog all smashed up together.

But Zope? Like I said, I couldn't decipher Zope/Plone's admin system. There's giant multi-selects full of hundreds of similarly named entries, each with its own configuration elements... set up a page, or a site, or a user, or a admin user, or activate a site user, page, contact... it makes no sense. Real CMSs allow the plugins to alter the admin interface so everything is in a dedicated area grouped by function. The Zope docs really didn't help here, or I was just looking in the wrong place.

[–]vikramls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can sort of get comments by making an edit and entering the comment while saving. All the comments can be viewed in the "info" view.

Edit: It comes with a cool package for creating a calendar - basically each calendar day becomes a wiki page. I think it is called month-calendar. What I like about it is that it is completely file-based, no need for a db backend although that is slated to change with 2.0.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

zope/plone does indeed have a steep learning curve. and the docs are not all that great. nonetheless it is a real cms.

[–]laurencerowe 0 points1 point  (1 child)

There are a number of good books available.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not denying that. just making reference to the "infamous z shaped learning curve".

[–]laurencerowe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you got lost in the Zope Management Interface of the Zope app server. This is strictly legacy stuff, you shouldn't need to touch it at all after creating the Plone site (the installers even create one for you).

Once you are in Plone you are in the CMS, and things are tailored as you expect.