On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trying to find information on Wikis is, to put it mildly, frustrating. > This is a good reason why one should never actually use "wiki" in a url > that is intended to be search engine friendly. > > Anyway, I'm looking for a Wiki system that is designed from the > beginning to have strong security and access controls. I have various > internal research groups and want to be able to set up areas that they > can collaboratively edit, but other groups normally cannot edit or even > read their wiki. Some pages should be designated as readable to others. > And in some cases, different groups may collaborate on a page or set of > subpages. Of course I'd tie all this into CAS for authentication and > LDAP for group information. Having the ability to easily upload media > files (jpgs, small movies, etc) is also important. > > Does anyone know of anything that would fit the bill? MediaWiki does > offer some of this, but access control is very manual > (LocalSettings.php) and very coarse. Security and access control is not > something that MediaWiki was designed to be, which is understandable > given that it was built for wikipedia. > > There are a couple of Drupal-based options I'm looking at, but not sure > just yet how well they support this kind of thing. > > Michael > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > I would look into something like Alfresco (http://www.alfresco.com/). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
