We looked at eight (eight!) Wikis including the utterly confusing and IMO actually rather bad TWiki, and this one came out top. The only issue we have with it is that it's hard to customise the look and feel, but hey, that's just cosmetic. It's now going to be used on about 15 mini intranets for a client of ours. Rock on! — Jonathan Bates, August 2001

See WikiPatches/CSSskins for custom headers & CSS stylesheets. I've
completely customized the look of my UseModWiki. -- Tarquin

Similar to Jonathan Bates I did a rather extensive search for good wiki software and I like UseMod the best. It's easy, small, configurable. TWiki is utterly overloaded and all the PHP, Zope etc. style wikis depend on additional software. The only thing I like about TWiki are the powerful search facilities - I am planning to implement them into UseMod. Here the only thing I think could be better solved would be having a clear plug-in interface (UseModWikiPlugins) to not have to fiddle around in the code a lot. But that's a minor thing. I've installed it as organizational tool on our intranet and it works great :-) —DavidAndel, March 2002

I have to echo what's been said so far. I looked at several for implementation, including TWiki and Chiq_Chaq, but this was by far the simplest to install and configure - especially since I run on a mainframe under IBMs S390, which is a non-ASCII environment. Usemod also has the advantage of working well with Nutscape (which is my client's browser of choice - yuk!). I also like the fact that by simply renaming the file, I can run as many wikis as I want. Great Stuff! DonLoveday

I tried phpwiki but failed to get it to install after 3 hours of fiddling. LinuxUser? had a demo, and 3 minutes later I had a working system… excellent This is what programming used to be link..cleaning…simple and above all IT WORKS!!! --- wayne

Ditto to the previous comments. I'll just add this: If you like Bosxom (http://www.blosxom.com/) for blogging, you'll like UseModWiki for wikiing. --- mjf