Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] WikiWikiWiki

[Mike N. <mh...@us...>]

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:37, Eloi George wrote:
> > I have a request. Please consider working on a Wiki module.
> 
> But I'm intrigued.  It looks like Announcements with an automated mnemonic
> linking system, some sort of automatic cleanup and a changelog.  And of
> course a much simpler interface.

Eloi,
I think of Wikis as a simplified combination of CVS and HTML. Wikis are
great for collaborating on small to medium size documents. The
changelog, diffs, and simplified tag structure are very useful. There
are many writers that aren't comfortable writing documents using XML,
DocBook, or HTML. Wikis allow these writers to contribute content to a
project.

    You can even convert Wiki to DocBook.
    http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/Wt2Db

> ArticleManager allows the SiteOp to grant
> free access to everyone to make/edit articles, and I can probably graft the
> other features onto it, but the interface will be the same "edit/save
> section then save page".  Slightly less intuitive than edit&save, but it'll
> do the job.

Would this modification include changelog and diff capabilities?

> I'd like to try this feature addition out, but I'm not even sure if it'll be
> worth the amount of time I spent thinking about it.

I think Wiki functionality for phpWS is well worth the time you may
spend on the task.

> So thanks, Mike.  Now you've warped my fragile little mind.
> 
> (hee hee) do it again!

Take a look at this.

    Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    http://www.wikipedia.org/

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