[Radiance-general] Radiance documentation organization

[Gregory J. Ward]

Hi Iebele,

We tried a Wiki for Radiance already and it didn't go anywhere, and  
was inundated by adware.  I don't really blame Wiki for this -- the  
problem was more lack of groundswell and necessary controls, which  
I'm sure we could remedy if we were a little more organized.

I am not versed on the merits of or differences between Plone and  
Wiki, and I know very little about either.  Both Peter Apian- 
Bennewitz and Daniel Fuller (the sysadmin for LBL's website) say  
Plone is better, but you would have to ask them for details.  I'm  
willing to trust others' judgement on the matter, as I have no  
expertise in the area of web management.  I can make some simple  
HTML, and that's about it.

The important thing is that we agree to contribute material, and the  
site administrator should be happy and/or paid for their efforts,  
which I suspect would be substantial using either system.  In other  
words, setting up a Wiki site may be easy, but protecting it from  
adware while developing useful content may in fact be easier with  
Plone.  I leave the debate to others.

-Greg

> From: iebele <info at iebele.nl>
> Date: November 2, 2006 11:53:41 PM PST
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> I've checked plone. I am not convinced that this will encourage  
> people to work on the documentation. I haven't seen convincing  
> running examples yet - maybe others have ?
>
> Concerning Wikipedia:
>
> Please have a look at  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki.
>
> This is a free software distribution which requires only MySQL,  
> Apache and PHP to run.
>
> When this wiki software is installed on a server, it /is/ a  
> controlled environment. Most important feature imho is that only  
> registered users can edit articles.
>
> What kind of funding is required ? A webserver ?
>
> -Iebele