History: Wiki and programming

Title
Wiki and programming
Thursday 9:00

Issue
How can we combine wiki and programming? For example
<python>print("hello, world")</python>

What happened
Some of the topics discussed were:

• Who writes? Skill Level (expert, end user)
• Where do they write? In the wiki code, in plugins, in an administrator interface (wordpress)
• Runtime context? Run within the wiki, decoupled, application server. Server load/runaway code, security issues.
• What language do they write in? The language of the wiki? General purpose language versus domain specific language
• Access to wiki functionality: Rights of user, data, programming rights, external content.

Concrete elements mentioned:

• OSGi, a standard
• Apache Felix.
• Eclipse Equinoxe
• Bean Scripting Framework (BSF)
• Xwiki embedded programming. Velosity
• Running perl via perlsafe module and tainted mode
• Embedding via iframe.
• Foswiki
• Avoiding <python>print(open('/etc/password').read() )</python>

Attendees

• Finn Ã…rup Nielsen (Convener)
• Martin Cleaver (Convener)
• Dirk Riehl
• Andreas Jonsson
• ...