On 1/12/06, Munson, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like you want a content management system rather than a wiki. > The difference being you give people access to edit your content instead > of a free-for-all system. Check out Farcry, an open source, CF based > CMS. Personally I haven't tried it, but I did attend their demo at > CFUnited 2005, and I was pretty impressed.
Thanks for that :) Not our demo per se just an enthusiastic member of the community at CFUnited. Current link for FarCry community site: http://www.farcrycms.org/ I thought I might chime in to say I've been using a WIKI as an experiment for building developer documentation for the FarCry community. You can see our efforts here: http://bugs.farcrycms.org:8080/confluence/dashboard.action We tried this in FarCry initially but WIKI and CMS are not really equivalent. A wiki is a very niche sort of CMS; very interactive and very organis. And although I'm sure we could engineer FarCry to run in "wiki mode" I'm not sure about the return on investment given the multitude of specialist wiki engines out there. I'm a late convert to the WIKI seen.. but I quite like working with them once you get going. I think however you need the right content project and a community of wiki users ie people who know how it works or are prepared to learn -- this isn't the general public just yet. Navigational concepts get a bit blurry and its important that people who really do know what they are doing constantly keep pruning the wiki so to speak, otherwise it gets out of hand, and/or whithers and dies. We're using Confluence. Its Java and its commercial (unless you are an open source project) but its very much more sophisticated than the variety of other WIKIs I've tried to set up: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ If you are building wikis you wouldn't go far wrong trying to benchmark against Confluence's feature set -- it's really a great product. -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229274 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
