we probably don't need a wiki. Content management ahoy!

Just my 5 cents.

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On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I'll reiterate a prior recommendation to use Wikispaces. It's been
>> working fine for BLU and a few other projects with minimal maintenance
>> effort. (Much nicer wiki UI than kwiki, too.) If you set it to require a
>> login (OpenID) you pretty much eliminate spam.
>> 
>> The big downside to it is that you have to pay in order to use a fully
>> custom domain, otherwise you get a subdomain, which you could redirect
>> to from your desired domain.
>> 
> 
> Tom's offer is very much appreciated. My previous reply was along the lines
> that we'd had so little wiki-ish authoring activity (aside from the
> spammers) that I doubting the conversion was worth the effort and cost, was
> wondering if we'd have a better fit moving to a Content Management System
> (such as the minimalist WEBDAV that pm.org supplies -- that Jerrad and I
> used on Advent 2.0 -- or something fancier, hopefully Perl based, maybe
> runnable where our wiki is now (Quinlan's)).
> 
> For FAQ/contact pages and a monthly calender update we don't need much --
> and only the few who actually do the editing need write access. That's all
> that's really happening now.
> 
> I would like comment on those requirements -- do we need a wiki ? if so,
> what is who going to do with it that they haven't lately ?
> 
> -- 
> Bill
> @n1vux [email protected]
> 
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