On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:32 AM, kjettil <[email protected]> wrote: > David Spitzley wrote: > > Ideally I want to allow separate logins per business or other > organization, with separate pages for each, each of them individually > stylable. I'm half considering rolling my own, but I'd like hear any > suggestions others may have of either specific configurations of pmwiki > (I've done about 6 installs for different purposes, but nothing too > different from a standard wiki), or of other software which would support > such a project effectively. > > > <Snip> All sites work like charm, except ... > > ... except for sites with "novice" users, where PmWiki's lack of > WYSIWYG editing is an effective barrier to user participation. Most > people simply don't want to take the time to learn wiki "coding". And if > they try, they often get things wrong, end up with an ugly looking page > and never try again. In one case, a club site where club members were > supposed to contribute text and images, we had to scrap the PmWiki site > entirely and instead use WordPress. That reduced the number of degrees > of freedom in web design but solved the problem with user participation.
That's my experience, too -- unless I have a good relationship with a very capable representative of the users' group, and together we're prepared to watch the site like hawks and jump in helpfully the moment a user has trouble (*after* conducting group and one-on-one training sessions that communicate, above all, the availability of help when it's needed), you'll get users giving up in disgust. Most of my wikis have very few users, and I work with them to get them comfortable with the wiki markup. You might look at something like a "roll your own" social network -- e.g. ning.com.
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