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[Phpwiki-talk] Empowerment

[John K. <jo...@ke...>]

"I think the internet should be mostly comprised of wikis."

Eh, what? My job is building web sites for people, which is fine and 
I enjoy it. But mostly the folks who want to edit the sites day to 
day can't do it because they don't know html and don't want to learn 
it.

Using a wiki is an excellent answer, but presents several problems, 
due to its open nature. Pages would have to be editable only by the 
site owners, it would need to allow image upload, and let them be 
aligned etc.

Would it be worthwhile setting up a branch of phpwiki for 'single-owner' use?

Your thoughts?

John.
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Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Empowerment

[Adam S. <ad...@pe...>]

> Using a wiki is an excellent answer, but presents several problems, 
> due to its open nature. Pages would have to be editable only by the 
> site owners, it would need to allow image upload, and let them be 
> aligned etc.

IMHO ...

I think what you've described would be a CMS rather then a Wiki, and
lots of them already exist.  Sorta the entire point of a wiki is that
*everyone* can edit it.  While I support the idea that there may be
certain pages or certain times when a Wiki doesn't want publicly
editable pages, I think it kinda stops being a Wiki when the rule is
that only the site owners can edit the pages.
 
> Would it be worthwhile setting up a branch of phpwiki for 'single-owner' use?

You might want to check out some of the WikiAsPim pages which are on
some of the wiki's.  I believe there are good links from the PhpWiki
page.

Adam.