On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:30:40PM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: > Tavis Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have experience setting up a wiki? > > I just set up a Wiki for another project, and it would be easy to add > a Webware section to it. It's only useful if people really use it -- > a critical mass has to be reached -- but if people are interested it > would be easy to set up.
Our Seattle Python users' group has a wiki: http://zipcon.net/seapig We use it to decide topics for our meetings, to poll our members about the best meeting times and places, etc. We also have topics of a more permanent nature, such as how each member discovered Python, what our personal projects/skills/interests are, etc. Wikis are very convenient for this. We also have an intranet wiki at work used to build collaborative documentation, and to pool our task lists and status updates for distributed projects. It works best for documents that are short (a few screenfuls max), and that don't require precise formatting. The original wiki (WikiWiki) is a Perl CGI script. There's a Zope version called ZWiki. There are several Python versions starting with PikiPiki (the one our PIG [Python Interest Group] is using). PikiePikie and MoinMoin are enhanced forks of PikiPiki. Pyle offers logins and permissions to control write access; that's the one we're using at work. (Of course, that's against the wiki philosophy of allowing anyone to edit anything anonymously, but our management felt insecure and insisted on that.) * * * * * For doing polls, our PIG has developed this strategy: each question gets a section. Each answer gets a paragraph in that section; e.g.: Which day to meet? [0.5] Tuesday * PennyPythoneer, that's great for me (vote 1) * GeorgeBorge, I can't (vote -1) * JimBim, OK but I'd rather not (vote .5) * AnnieKate, I don't care (vote 0) Whenever somebody votes, they add their comment and add or subtract their vote from the top. They can change their vote at any time. * * * * * You don't need a lot of active people for a wiki. Just one or two people willing to build the initial set of pages, and then it will take care of itself. -- -Mike (Iron) Orr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if mail problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://iron.cx/ English * Esperanto * Russkiy * Deutsch * Espan~ol _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
