Hello Community! I am new to Tinderbox. My goal is to set up a wiki to explain climate solutions. I’m inspired by the TVtropes wiki, which started as a pmwiki, but then diverged substantially and with much investment. I thought Tinderbox might be useful to set up something with similar complexity, but am now overwhelmed by the idea.
Yes you could write a wiki, though Tinderbox doesn’t use wiki mark-up syntax†.
But wiki pages, as many misunderstand, are just HTML even if written in ‘wiki’ mark-up. So (HTML) pages you make in Tinderbox will work in the wiki.
So you should be fine as long as you don’t expect to use wiki mark-up in making the pages.
†. It might look like the current vogue for Markdown but it isn’t the same and even then different wikis have different flavours of mark-up.
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Tinderbox is a single-user system, while most wikis tend to be multi-user.
I think the best role for Tinderbox in a multi-user wiki might be the (crucial) step of designing and fleshing out the initial state of the Wiki, with sufficient information to (a) attract interest and (b) suggest the tone and general degree of rigor you with to instill. The latter will be especially important in this technical and controversial area.
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Yes, but one could create their own parser to map the HTML to wiki mark-up using action code.
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Yes, this is exactly the crucial step that I am at.