Dear all, Am 17.06.2012 07:38, schrieb Limoke Oscar: > I love the idea of a blog but however qm skeptical we need one.We > already have a wiki website that we still struggle to update and > which could serve as a portal and blog for informing the whole world > about us. Am sure if we start a blog, we might just as well be > duplicating content from our wiki....just my 2cents
allow me to chime in for a moment. Technically, we can set up on your website whatever you need and add so-called "subdomains", for instance: * www.wikimedia.or.ke - a website, built with a blog software such as Wordpress or Drupal * members.wikimedia.or.ke - current wiki, used for members to publish reports, document / manage projects, work on concepts etc. * board.wikimedia.or.ke - closed wiki for the board to be able to discuss internal issues, develop resolutions, internal documentation such as passwords of mailinglists, websites and wikis, bank details etc. * <projectname>.wikimedia.or.ke - specific wikis for bigger projects, can be public or only disclosed to a specific project team the wikis can all be integrated into the members wiki by using the same user database and user preferences, so everybody just needs one account and based on the user role she or he can access specific wikis or not. For smaller chapters I have seen wikis as websites for a while, we also did that for Wikimedia CH and I think Wikimedia Sweden and Wikimedia Israel still do that. On the other hand both Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia Austria at one point decided to have a "real" website, both are using Drupal now. I think it is correct to argument about the ability to update the website - does an association already have so much information and therefore a need for a website? Better start low and grow bigger as your association and the needs grow. The Drupal website has another side-effect: Several Wikimedia chapters use it for CiviCRM, which is a module on top of Drupal. We maintain our contacts, finances, event registrations etc. withing CiviCRM. So the website and the central contact management system is basically the same thing. You can always start by using the current wiki / website as your website, add Drupal CiviCRM later as you need it, build a new website based on Drupal, once it is ready we move the wiki to the "members" subdomain and move Drupal to www.wikimedia.or.ke. We are flexible with that. Regards, Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake
