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Hi folks, I don't mean to be a spoilsport, but are you *certain* that MediaWiki is the best choice for a public-facing wiki site? The reason I ask is that I've admin-ed a few public-facing wikis and all but one of them was found by "wiki spammers" and quickly devolved into a battleground for wiki-spam or whatever you want to call all those nearly unintelligible "v1Agra" and other messages that blossomed into thousands of lines on dozens of new pages. Its a total shame. And the wikis became such a mess that we abandoned them or locked them away with passwords. So, have you seen: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/WikiEngineComparison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software http://wikifeatures.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/WikiEngine and noticed that most modern wikis now support some kind of authentication, ACLs, page-locking, and/or other permissions? And notice that MediaWiki, while it is a *very* nice-looking and widely-used wiki engine, is one of the few that (almost) totally lacks this important (I would say crucial) feature? Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ phone: 617-253-0098 fax: 617-253-4464 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
