Saturday, February 24, 2007, 8:06:25 PM, Philip wrote: > The other side would befor news/forums/eventcalendar, etc. with pages that > change a > lot but where there will be aneed tocontrol carefully the content. > Forexample, the > news page would be under the control of one or moreeditors, wherenothing can > be posted > except by one of the editors. Themoderated forum page would allow anyone > toview the > postings, but would require a login in which the user isrequired toprovide a > real > identity, an email address, and make postings usingfirst and last name. The > forum user > could edithis own posts afterposting, but not anyone elses. Theevent > calendar would > allow anyone to make a posting, but only thatperson couldedit the posting, > and the wiki > would cause the posting to shift to an"archive" page assoon as the calendar > overtook > the event date. The site should be verysecure, whatever that means.
Hi Philip, I just like to comment on the above detailed requirements you are making. I see a wiki and PmWiki as a much more open participatory environment. With PmWiki you can require people to login, and give individual people user name sand passwords. Then lock all or parts of the wiki so the general public cannot edit pages. Perhaps not even read some. But I have not seen an implementation where contributors can only edit their own contributions, and not any others. Well one could create a new page and then lock the edit of it with a password. But you are running into a nightmare of different passwords for different pages. To provide the sort of security details you are after for a forum I think phpBB is much better suited. I developed a simple forum for PmWiki, but it relies on honesty and fair play from people contributing, so they will not delete or change other people's posts. I think you will find that throughout the wiki world. Soft security is more important than rigid enforced rules. Most important is to get people to participate in the first place, and make it open and easy to do so. Hans _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
