On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Matej Cepl wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Paul E Johnson wrote:
> 
> > I have been studying WikiWiki for an hour and I'm totally baffled why 
> > anybody would write anything important in there. Any person, without 
> > even giving an email address, can come along and erase it all!
> >

There Wikis with identification and user control etc.
 
> > Without some minimial form of security, I don't see how this could work.
> 
> I have been baffled myself too when I saw my first WikiWiki too,
> but the fact is that there are plenty of WikiWikis around which
> are working pretty well (see the original WikiWiki at
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb). So, either people are not so
> ugly after all, or they have pretty good backups. Pick your
> choice.
> 
This wiki uses revision control, so you can always go back and look 
at earlier versions of a page. 

But frankly, I don't think there are that many people out there that have 
an interest in ruining a LyX FAQ... wait... hope nobody at Microsoft is 
reading this :-)

/Christian

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Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Design        http://www.md.kth.se

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