Generally I think that we should choose the one that offers the most consistent support in Hebrew, a project that has the best Hebrew maintenance level >From my basic knowledge: Wikia alongside the entire MediaWiki software and plugins is pretty good but not maintained periodically (I'm an active translator there) If there are more members from the Israeli community that would like to contribute to the MediaWiki software I think it would be much better, nowadays the only technical maintainer is Rotemliss and he is doing a great job but he doesn't have any time for it
I think the big dilemma is between Drupal and WordPress, I personally think that MovableType will not satisfy the community and authors needs Drupal, although somewhat maintained would be to heavy for the cause... WordPress, although pretty simple can be very powerful and cover almost all needs That's my personal perspective, anyone else? Yaron Shahrabani - CTO "The Campus" Web: http://www.hacampus.org.il/ Israeli Applicable Studies Institute 200 Hativat Yiftah St., Karmiel, Israel Phone Number: +972 (4) 9988508 On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > Hi all! > > First of all let me apologise for putting a half-arsed web site on > www.iglu.org.il. Now I still want to transform it into a representative > news- > site/blog in English for the Israeli FOSS community (of which I'm not aware > of > any, except personal ones ). This would mean that several people will have > to > cooperate on it, given posting privileges, etc. > > I think something like WordPress or Movable Type ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_Type ) would be good enough, but > something fancier like Drupal may be better. It probably needs to be in the > Debian repositories for easy management, but I'm not an admin. > > So what are our options: (let the bike shed colour war begin) > > 1. WordPress - lots and lots of security holes, too basic functionality by > default; requires a bootload of plugins to convert into a usable state > which > many bloggers won't install; and has lots of bugs - it already ate some of > my > comments and refused to let me post them again, and the blog owners did not > know what to do about it. > > I think I'll pass. > > 2. Movable Type: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_Type - open source > and > GPLed and written in more secure Perl than WordPress' PHP. Historically was > a > blog system of choice for small-time bloggers and WordPress gained ground > due > to the fact that MT was not free at first. > > Has fewer usable skins than WordPress, but one can always hack a WordPress > skin into shape or customise an existing skin. > > When I tried it, it left many world-writable (777 permed) files on my hard- > drive, but there may be some way to avoid it. > > 3. Joomla - Drupal is considered better. > > 4. Drupal - may be an overkill here, does not maintain backwards > compatibility > between major versions (and only has minor versions for bug-fixes), and > many > important plugins do not work with the newest versions. > > 5. Naturally, there are many others: > > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems > > * http://cms.wikia.com/ (my link) > > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog_software > > And some other people and I started our own, which is not really ready for > prime time, yet: > > https://www.ohloh.net/p/catable > > Anyway, if you can think of something better, please let me know. That or > have > any comments to the above. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > The Case for File Swapping - http://shlom.in/file-swap > > Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. > _______________________________________________ > Discussions mailing list > Discussions@hamakor.org.il > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
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