[TriLUG] Another idea for triwiki

[Ed Hill]

> > > http://www.trilug.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Hi folks,

I don't mean to be a spoilsport, but are you *certain* that MediaWiki is
the best choice for a public-facing wiki site?

The reason I ask is that I've admin-ed a few public-facing wikis and all
but one of them was found by "wiki spammers" and quickly devolved into a
battleground for wiki-spam or whatever you want to call all those nearly
unintelligible "v1Agra" and other messages that blossomed into thousands
of lines on dozens of new pages.  Its a total shame.  And the wikis
became such a mess that we abandoned them or locked them away with
passwords.

So, have you seen:

  http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/WikiEngineComparison
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software
  http://wikifeatures.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/WikiEngine

and noticed that most modern wikis now support some kind of
authentication, ACLs, page-locking, and/or other permissions?  And
notice that MediaWiki, while it is a *very* nice-looking and widely-used
wiki engine, is one of the few that (almost) totally lacks this
important (I would say crucial) feature?

Ed

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