Ed, mediawiki is a temporary measure until a real wiki is implemented. I hope to do this within the next few weeks. We've already had to kill a number of wiki spams though.
On 8/17/05, Ed Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > http://www.trilug.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > > 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 > -- Joseph Tate Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com -- 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
