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I am starting a
community wiki in It is my thought to
bifurcate the
wiki. One side would be modeled
on Wikipedia -- sort of an encyclopedia of the
town with fairly static pages and where pmWiki's relaxed admin style
works really well. The other side would be
for news/forums/event
calendar, etc. with pages that change a lot but where there will be a
need to
control carefully the content. For
example, the news page would be under the control of one or more
editors, where
nothing can be posted except by one of the editors. The
moderated forum page would allow anyone to
view the postings, but would require a login in which the user is
required to
provide a real identity, an email address, and make postings using
first and last name. The forum user could edit
his own posts after
posting, but not anyone else’s. The
event calendar would allow anyone to make a posting, but only that
person could
edit the posting, and the wiki would cause the posting to shift to an
"archive" page as
soon as the calendar overtook the event date. The site should be very
secure, whatever that means.
My first question: is
pmwiki is the right wiki software for me to use for news/forum/event
side of my proposed community wiki? If not what is? If it is . . .
A Communtiy Wiki template
is sorely need - newspapers just don't cover local politics anymore.
The internet is killing local newspapers. The sunlight of news
coverage is the very best disinfectant for government waste,
incompetence and corruption. Replacing newspapers is one real need
that can be met by "citizen journalists" recruited from the retiring baby boomers with writing skills. The death of
newspapers and the growth of citizen journalism is going to be a
powerful combination. Also, a community wiki with people using their
real names, bumping into each other in the grocery store, could really
help fight the "bowling alone" syndrome that has grown so much over the
last twenty years. I really believe that a killer community wiki
template would be a killer app with potentially large, very positive
implications. Although I can’t do the
programming,
I can do a lot else. First, I could pay
somebody to help me build this site,
if that’s what it takes. But my
preference would be for me to trade my
writing/thinking/business/creative
skills to whoever helps me, on kind of a barter basis. Any
takers? If not, any suggestions
on how to
set up the login/security features I seek for the news/forums/event
side of the
wiki? I am spending my weekend trying to figure how to make ZAP
logins work on my beta site. Complicated programming advice will go
over my head, but I'm competent to paste snippets of code. And I don't
really understand if ZAP is the right way to go or not. Sorry for the long post. Hope I didn't
violate any posting rules. -- Philip Yates 515 High St. Oregon City, OR 97070 (503) 570-8000 |
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