[Radiance-general] Radiance documentation organization

[J. David Maino]

Hello all,

I recently deployed MediaWiki for use at work and the way we set it up 
was that a) you must be logged in to edit anything and b) certain people 
or groups of people we're placed in charge of different sections on the 
Wiki, meaning that they were the only ones who could directly contribute 
to that particular page (individual users can protect pages with a 
separate password that will allow only them to edit it). However, we 
also set up a "drafts" page which was linked from the main page that was 
essentially a mirror of each page. Anyone logged in could edit and add 
to this draft page and every once in awhile the person(s) in charge of 
the section will go through the draft and add things that are relevant 
and correct to the main page. This helps us make sure that there is 
limited spamming (and NO spamming on the main pages) and it helps us 
ensure the accuracy and helpfulness of items within the wiki. I'm not 
familiar with Plone, but I would imagine a similar setup could be 
arranged with that as well.

Granted, this does not solve the issue of actually convincing people to 
contribute to such a setup, but something like this would help 
significantly with quality control and making sure that little or no 
spam makes its way to the wiki.

Dave

Gregory J. Ward wrote:
> 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
> 
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