>To all grand masters of Swiki ;-) > >While working on my squeaklet server setup the following questions came >up: > >- to what extend do you keep the history of changes for a given page? Forever. It's mostly a very small piece of text, so it doesn't take much space. >- what is the average rate of changes? Varies dramatically. If, for example, a large class of 180 students are required to take part in a debate in a two week period, changes occur VERY rapidly. If a large class is creating their Who's Who pages, then there's a big burst of changes at the beginning of a term, then quiet. >- how do you deal with malicious users? Do you just take the calculated >risk and roll back to earlier versions of affected pages? How much of a >problem is this anyway? The old PWS Swiki had a rollback mechanism. I don't think Comanche Swiki does, which gives you an indication of how often we've had to do it. I've only once rolled back a page, when someone accidentally (in old PWS) deleted the old Who's Who list -- and in the ComSwiki, I'd just copy out of the history! In general, people are better behaved than one might imagine. I've got a first draft of a CoWeb Catalog, which may be of interest to you, at: http://guzdial.cc.gatech.edu/squeakers/coweb-catalog.pdf This is a list of 25 projects (with URLs) that have been invented by users of the CoWeb. I've got some additions to make (and some typos to fix) yet, but the content is pretty interesting already, I think. Mark -------------------------- Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies. Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/ (404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html
