Wiki interest
This is where people can jot notes about wikiwiki software, development, uses, adapations, et cetera.
I say sorta, because we need to nail down exactly what we're trying to accomplish. I think people have widely different ideas of what can be done with a wiki.
Interesting Related Reading
Wiki Features?
- Integrated revision tracking (with rollback) for pages
- Anyone can view the page modification history
- Anyone can revert to a prior version of the page
- Typically little need for authentication/authorization overhead since
- Challenge of defacement is low
- Glory of defacement is zero
- Cutting out undesired changes on a page is quick and easy
- Editing pages is easy
- Simple markup syntax
- Every page is editable
- Pages can grow in small steps over time
- Multi-author collaboration is possible and encouraged
- "Forgiveness is easier than permission"
- Flexible Information Architecture (IA)
- Nodes in the IA have (dynamically allocated) names
- Hyperlinking is easy, just reference a node name to create a connection
Drupal seems to have many of the features which make wikis good
- Collaborative Book - Our unique collaborative book feature lets you setup a project or "book" that needs to be written and then authorize other individuals to contribute content.
- Version control - Drupal's version control system tracks the details of content updates including who changed it, what was changed, the date and time of changes made to your content and more. Version control features provide an option to keep a comment log and enables you to roll-back content to an earlier version.
Wiki Derivative Development?
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Hypotheses:
- a CMS with equally good (or better revision control software than a wikiwiki) could functionally replace a wiki, because the version control would permit much greater liberty to bypass the burden of auth (authentication and/or authorization) and get work done.
- the text editor for content editing would have to be either WYSIWYG or have a wiki-compatibility mode (maybe also a BBcode etc compatibility).
- a Wiki with ability to plug in modules/components, and to have more controlled (restricted) workflow for content editing, could functionally replace a CMS, esp if the auth system was sufficiently capable without becoming too hard to really use
- a Wiki with very good search & filter capability, and ability to restrict viewing to a single (or group of) user(s), could replace an entire email system
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