Hello,

good to hear you consider using Habari for your site. Here is what I
know.

> Security and Privacy
> - All newly written content must remain in unseen draft form until
> approved and published by administrator

I'm unsure about this one. There might be a plugin for that.
Administrators can publish other users' posts, but I'm not sure if it
is possible to deny publishing for other users.

> - Users should never be able to read each other's unpublished, draft
> content

Possible.

> - Anybody outside the school community is blocked from contacting
> students in any way through the website
>

You can't contact the authors directly. Commenting on articles is
enabled by default, you can disable it. If you want that only users
inside the school community can comment on articles, that would
require more work but would be possible, too. You could create an
account for everyone and allow those accounts commenting.

> Versioning
> - Need to be able to undo changes and revert to a previous version
>

Not possible AFAIK.

> Bliki Capabilties
> - Need for both dynamic and static pages

What do you mean by dynamic pages? Pages that have changing content or
pages that are not always visible? Habari is mainly a blog system, so
it has a dynamic stream showing the first X articles, and it has
static pages. If you want pages that change their content, you would
have to create them yourself (for example, I created one that
automatically shows all the events I blogged about). Anyway, it is
possible, yes.

> - Need blog capability for frequently updated content, such as News,
> Reviews, etc.

As I said, Habari is a blog system at first, so yes, that's possible.

> - Need primitive wiki capability for static pages, so multiple users
> can collaboratively edit content

You can allow users to edit static content. By default, it is limited
to editing the HTML source code. There is no version control, so that
is very far away from a wiki. I don't know what plugins are available
to extend functionality in that way.

Hope that helps. I don't know which of the features that are currently
not available are planned for the future. One of the core developers
might answer here.

Konzertheld

On 24 Aug., 16:42, luke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good day everybody.
>
> I am helping a middle school teacher friend of mine set up an online
> student newspaper. Habari is one of the CMS's under consideration. I
> have already qualified Habari as meeting requirements with respect to
> freedom, small codebase, documentation, multiple users and
> administrators, GUI administration, themes, and plugins. I have also
> set up an active test site on a spare account for further exploration.
>
> However, this online student newspaper project will have some unique
> requirements. Does Habari meet the following needs?
>
> Security and Privacy
> - All newly written content must remain in unseen draft form until
> approved and published by administrator
> - Users should never be able to read each other's unpublished, draft
> content
> - Anybody outside the school community is blocked from contacting
> students in any way through the website
>
> Versioning
> - Need to be able to undo changes and revert to a previous version
>
> Bliki Capabilties
> - Need for both dynamic and static pages
> - Need blog capability for frequently updated content, such as News,
> Reviews, etc.
> - Need primitive wiki capability for static pages, so multiple users
> can collaboratively edit content
>
> Thank you for your assistance,
> Luke Seubert

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