Re: eZ in Debian-Edu and on skolelinux.org?

[Alex Brasetvik <alex@brasetvik.com>]

Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote:

> As sandbox where to collect logs, preliminary information and so on, a 
> Wiki is indeed great. But for presenting a project?

Note that we may of course lock important pages, such as the frontpage, 
news and other really important pages, so only administrators can edit them.

> Our wiki was open. There were several spams a week - dirty ads and all 
> that stuff - which was really annoying.

My experience is that in an active wiki, such abuse is discovered and 
remedied promptly. If we go for a wiki solution we will certainly 
experience abuse, but there's lots of eyes -- in different timezones, 
too -- in this project, so I don't think we should abuse alone should 
scare us away from a wiki solution.


> Everybody played around here and there, even if the front page was well designed and gave a godd 
> structure, using the search function resulted often in outdated or 
> wrong information.

Making it easy to navigate in a wiki with lots of information is 
difficult, but not impossible.

> On the other hand, I am a fan of Wikipedia which works out well - as 
> long tere are people enough to clean spam attacks. Maybe I am just too 
> sceptical. 

I think MediaWiki[1] is an excellent Wiki-implementation, running it 
myself on www.linuxguiden.no. We would never get 500 new articles in 
~three months if this had been an authorial site. We have experienced 
abuse, as any wiki out there, but now as we've got an IRC-bot announcing 
every change and a mailing list with diffs, controlling and possibly 
rejecting changes is a breeze. Most of the abuse has been curious users 
new to the wiki-concept just testing wether or not they can edit, for real.

Another thing I really like with MediaWiki, is the "wix"-utility. [2]
It gives you a "CVS-interface" to MediaWiki, enabling you to work 
offline and with your editor of choice -- check out, edit, update, commit.

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[1] http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net, http://meta.wikipedia.org
[2] http://tinyurl.com/65fbk (cpan.org had troubles, so link to wix 
Google cache)