The Wiki system that I have experience with is Twiki
(http://www.twiki.org/), a Perl-based CGI Wiki. It has its own system
for doing markup (for maing simple tables, links, etc.) but can also
use HTML in article texts. It's primarily run on Unix servers. I
find the basic search to be a little weak at times, but it's quite
usable.

My only concern about tagging on to an existing project (like
wikipedia) is that the organization of a general site might not match
what would be most useful for our needs. Wikipedia is primarily a
flat collection of articles. If you want to search for something
specific that you know the name of, it's fine; however, it seems that
for our purposes it might be useful to be able to browse a hierarchy
of articles that would be somewhat different than the categories that
the existing site uses. There's also the risk of Pali-related content
getting 'lost in the noise' of the huge variety of other articles,
making it more difficult to find exactly what is needed. Also, the
language-specific sections of the Wikipedia are meant for
encyclopedias in those languages; it seems to me that an
English-language site would be more generally useful.

I agree with Lennart about the role of a Wiki of some type; it would
be good to take the answers that result from the discussions on the
list and record them somewhere that they can easily be found. Topics
naturally tend to wander, so it can be difficult to find an answer if
it is contained in several emails that may have changed subject more
than once. There is a lot of practical information (such as our
discussions about fonts and Unicode), in addition to links,
refinements of meaning in words, information on Pali books, etc. that
could be an excellent suppliment to the list.

Clay Collier