[TriLUG] Another idea for triwiki

[Joseph Tate]

Ed, mediawiki is a temporary measure until a real wiki is implemented.
 I hope to do this within the next few weeks.  We've already had to
kill a number of wiki spams though.

On 8/17/05, Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > 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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