I've been thinking about this too recently.Please see http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Audiences-Talk and (vote for) http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00421
Simon 2009/6/16 Tegan Dowling <[email protected]> > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users > > -- ____ http://kiwiwiki.co.nz
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