Ben Francis wrote:
I'd recommend MediaWiki[1] which is the wiki behind wikipedia. I'm currently using three of them, two of which are for internal use only and soon to install a fourth. I don't know if it features password protection for *reading* the wiki on a public web server though, I've just been using http auth.
Mediawiki works very well, though it is a large system and it might be a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I doubt the ALUG wiki would have enough pages to justify using a system on that scale, really!
Having extra user names and passwords is always a pain in the neck but sadly the growth of spamming makes it a necessary evil. Also, I doubt that many ALUGers will be doing much updating on a regular basis, so it won't put upon too many people. Passwords and the like *are* against the spirit of a wiki, but it is probably less annoying for a user to use one than to have to browse a spam-clogged site.