On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:17 AM, david <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm, yes, it is. See the discussion pages in Wikipedia. They also > automatically archive it.
No, it isn't. Wiki is a collaboration tool, so several contributors can refine a final product (article), not a discussion tool. Wikipedia discussion pages are awkward and it is not easy to follow who has contributed what because the discussion is destructive, not accumulative. There is a changes history, but again it is not easy to keep track of overlapping modifications. We are talking here about publishing and archiving musical content. Desirable features are: attachments, tags, categories, reviews, search engine, rating, Q&A with the author, RSS feeds for users that prefer a "push" approach... A web forum is not the perfect tool, that would be a custom CMS. I just suggested it because RG is hosted in sourceforge, which makes it easy to setup and manage certain standard web applications and they take care of user management. I guess a blog like WordPress could be usable for this purpose too, although I don't think it supports any rating mechanism, at least not without plugins and SF only supplies a minimal set of those. A Wiki fits the bill even less than those two. > requires someone to do it. Most automatic spam filtering I've seen in > forums is pretty useless, mostly keeping out legitimate links. Any web content manager of any kind that allows online editing is exposed to spam: boards, wikis, blogs, trackers, you name it. They all require an automated spam filter and a modicum of active moderation. > Including yours! ;-) I am trying to be objective here and provide technical arguments to support my position. I don't like or dislike (much less "hate") any tool, I just try to find the most convenient one for the problem at hand, always within my limited knowledge, of course. I love using mailing lists and wikis for what they are good for. If many web forums out there end up ridden with juvenile content, flame wars, ads and spam that is not a reflection on the tool, but on the community that is using it. That will happen no matter the tool, including mailing lists. Luis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
