2009/7/25 Realpolitik <[email protected]>: > > On Jul 24, 9:08 am, Scott Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: >> Before going too much further, can I ask that we start at question 0? >> >> 0. Is MediaWiki the best option for us? > > If Habari is to make use of MediaWiki, then the restructuring makes > sense. However, after thinking about what other open source projects > use, I'm inclined to think that MediaWiki is just a temporary fix. The > projects I've made the most use of in the past 4 months are probably > Python, Perl, Django, and Drupal. User contribution is sought after, > but done thru mailing lists rather than direct edits. Maybe it's too > early for this and there aren't enough people interested in > contributing in this way, but it's worth discussing the actual > alternatives to MW instead of restructuring the Wiki and then > switching systems a few months later.
MW may well be a temporary fix but I don't believe fixing its structure and encouraging new content will be wasted effort. Whatever we move to, if we move, will benefit from work we do now on structure and content. Fundamentally, we can start working on content almost immediately (my proposed changes can be done quite quickly). I don't think there is currently wiki software out there that offers compelling reasons to move. -- Michael C. Harris, School of CS&IT, RMIT University http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog IRC: michaeltwofish #habari --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
