<h3>Step One: <span style="text-decoration: line-through">Steal Underpants</span> <a href="http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl">UseModWiki</a></h3> <ul> <li>We used UseMod for "Grubstreet", our original London wiki.</li> <li>It was good and bad. <dl> <dt>Upside:</dt> <dd>One script, 30-second installation. Nice.</dd> <dt>Downsides:</dt> <dd>4,000 lines of dense "Perl 4 stylee" spaghetti code. Hacking on it makes your skull glow white-hot.</dd> <dd>Weird recurring problem with file locking.</dd> <dd>Basic wiki functionality wasn't enough for our requirements.</dd> </dl></li> <li>So we wrote our own.</li> </ul>