Good summary, Ilario. My question: Why is it difficult with Mediawiki?
Patrick
> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:11:51 +0100
> From: valde...@gmail.com
> To: wikimediach-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediach-l] "private" wiki for members?
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Manuel Schneider
> <m.schnei...@masterssystems.de> wrote:
> >
> > I like to mention that WM CH already _had_ a members wiki for around two
> > years
> > and it was abandoned, that's why we restructured the sites how they are now.
> > This was a board decision.
> >
>
> What Manuel has said is correct and I hope to *don't* reopen
> members.wikimedia.ch.
>
> I would summarize the decision also for members who has not been
> informed about this decision. In this case they can make their own
> opinion.
>
> At start three websites:
> * www.wikimedia.ch
> * members.wikimedia.ch
> * board.wikimedia.ch
>
> There was no sense because was very difficult to update three websites
> in 4 languages and the board asked to have this distinction:
> * www.wikimedia.ch (without login) - official website
> * www.wikimedia.ch (with login) - website to coordinate members and to
> have internal communication in substitution of members.wikimedia.ch
> * board.wikimedia.ch (without login) - communication of board to external
> * board.wikimedia.ch (with login) - to coordinate board's jobs
>
> What Michael is saying has a sense... we need to have another website
> for projects because it should give access to participants of projects
> which cannot be members.
>
> We have had in the past some exceptions for example for Dani Boos to
> give him access in the board.wikimedia.ch during the Bern's Wikipedia
> Day, but we hope in the future to proceed without exceptions.
>
> For this reason the idea of Michael has a sense and we hope to have a
> subdomain to manage all projects, probably with "different levels of
> access" but we know that it's difficult to manage them with Mediawiki.
>
> My personal opinion (but it's personal) I would give access to all
> users of this "Wikilab" or "Wikiprojects" to all pages because they
> can have a look in each projects and also decide to participate to
> them.
>
> Ilario
>
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