Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-11-12 Thread Tom P
Hi, I think having the wiki as default page for the project makes a lot of sense, there is way more information on the Wiki at this point, and it's pretty well organized. Of course, a few key pages would need to be locked-down (or maybe not, I'm an optimist !!). And dynamic pages like the aircraf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-11 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > It's a little bit like buying a house when you're thinking about having four > kids. even though we bought a nice house last autumn which might be suited to accommodate four children, the above sentence wasn't meant to be understood as a self-portrait ;-) Mart

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-11 Thread Peter Morgan
I knocked up this site with a templating engine, powered by NOREL on GAE, http://fg-www.appspot.com/ I also ported it to php5 to make everyone GPL happy ie not google, m$, oracle etc.. http://github.com/ac001/flightgear-php << not online but same site powered by php5

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-11 Thread Curtis Olson
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Martin Spott wrote: > Well, Drupal is primarily a website CMS whereas WordPress, to my > understanding, is prominently meant to serve for blogs. This is all true, but wordpress does have some capabilities in the CMS arena too. > Therefore it > doesn't come by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-11 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Curt, Curtis Olson wrote: > 2. I've played a bit with drupal, and in comparison to wordpress, it feels > much more adhoc and clunky, much less thought out, much more disorganized, > much less intuitive, much harder to admin, and much harder to make it do > what I want to do. Well, Drupal is p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-11 Thread Curtis Olson
This discussion has branched out in a couple directions, but let me just share a couple of my own thoughts. 1. I've been playing around with wordpress for my own selfish purposes: http://www.flightgear.org/blogs/category/ I *really* like wordpress. It's slick, it's well done, it's well conceive

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-10 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > > From time to time, I notices some abuse by inserted spam into our wiki pages. > Great care must be taken, our home page is locked for the "everybody" group. > If you're using the Wikimedia engine, you can install a plug-in that will require accounts

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-10 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Gijs, Gijs de Rooy wrote: > Question is: are there really (that many) features that we cannot > install easily on a wiki/CMS? The most prominent item that comes into my mind is what is probably well-decribed as "dynamic content" (choose a better term, if you like). Being the technical maintai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-10 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hey! > Torsten wrote: > > From time to time, I notices some abuse by inserted spam into our wiki pages. > Great care must be taken, our > home page is locked for the "everybody" group. Of course. Additionally I will look for some more anti-spam measures that we could install at the wiki. > T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-10 Thread Martin Spott
Gijs de Rooy wrote: > - Less open system: for example, it will be harder to implement > additional features (gallery's, search engines) etc. However, the > alternative is a CMS system, which isn't much opener... I'm uncertain about how to read this final conclusion. Cheers, Martin. --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-10 Thread Scott Hamilton
Yes I think there has been quite some discussion on a move to a more dynamic, with delegated administration style of website. I'd like to throw in WordPress as perhaps a better website content system than Wiki. Several open source projects have in the past used Wiki as a basis for a web conten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-10 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, I like this idea as well! A good and fantastic simulation project as FlightGear needs a better represantion on the web if we want to be as successfull as we are now.  The only thing I fear is: that it will be another useless discussion, without any resultat CheersHeiko still in work: http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-10 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 10.10.10 12:06, schrieb Gijs de Rooy: Hi, last week, James dropped the idea of moving our website (partly) over to the wiki . So far I have "discussed" this with a couple of people, all of which have different opinions. Therefore,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear website on wiki

2010-10-10 Thread Vivian Meazza
Gijs, This sounds like a worthwhile proposal. Why not set up the wiki page etc. so that we can compare and come up with an informed decision, rather than some pre-formed opinions. (4 FG Developers -> 5 opinions. One will change their mind :-)) Vivian -Original Message- From: Gij