Wikiiiiiiiii!!
I need smarter wiki software. Mainly because I tend to be a bit dense when it comes to using wikis. I am too used to the niceties of document editors that autosave your temporary work, and that will ask you if you want to discard unsaved edits when you close the application. But wikis don’t always offer that, and it has bitten me at least half a dozen times in the last six months. Either I hit the preview button and forget that I haven’t actually saved my changes yet, or I accidentally mash Shift-Backspace and navigate away from the edit page and the web browser doesn’t remember the form contents. Every time it’s completely demoralizing too, because I just wrote something amazingly profound, then stupidly obliterated it, and I know there is no easy way to get back to what I just lost.
I normally use PmWiki for my personal wikis because it is just so lightweight and easy to set up. There are just a few PHP files, not a lot of options, the format is simple to learn, and all the pages are stored on the filesystem so you don’t have to set up a database. Easy to backup and migrate, too! But this also means that it doesn’t have all the nifty client-side scripting that modern web applications provide, and so sometimes I shoot myself in the foot.
Oh well. PmWiki does in fact offer a plugin component that does the whole “Do you want to save your edits?” option; I think it’s probably high time I installed that.
Whining over. 