This article is part of a monthly series.

Every month I present a DokuWiki powered site which is special for its design, content or clever use of the software. To give you a first impression on what the site is about I'll send a short, interview style questionnaire to its creator.

This month's wiki zshwiki was chosen for its useful content. It shows DokuWiki used as auxiliary user driven documentation to a complex software.

Questions were answered by the site's webmaster Bruno Bonfils.

zshwiki.org is about (you guessed it) zsh or the Z-Shell, which is a bourne-like command shell for UNIX-like operating systems. It is insanely flexible. It can do about everything you can think of.

This flexibility makes zsh quite complex. Its manual is HUGE, as is a more userfriendly guide. zshwiki tries to give users (beginner or advanced) hands-on approaches to the shell to get a start with a problem you're working on. Because once you got a start, the manual actually works.

The wiki is online since 2002, but was running on a different wiki engine (can't remember which one exactly, I didn't like it), but it didn't have a lot of success. I wanted to switch to DokuWiki and Frank Terbeck helped me a lot.

I love DokuWiki so much that there wass no decision to take. I especially like the plugin framework, the administration interface, and so on. One of my favorite things is the upgrade process: tar, cp, and it's working, few minutes to update a wiki engine is very wonderful.

Except installing some plugins, no.

Everyone can register to edit in our DokuWiki:

% grep -c -v '^($|#)' users.auth.php
62

For hits, you can check yourself here: http://zshwiki.org/stats/. There are about 80 pages currently.

If you know of a DokuWiki driven site which is somehow remarkable and should be featured as DokuWiki of the Month, drop me a mail or leave a comment, please.

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