[kwlug disc.] Wiki wiki wiki

[Unsolicited]

Perhaps the question should be expanded?

Is there a better tool than a wiki out there for Paul?

I guess a wiki is a class of Content Management System (CMS), and 
I guess there are more of those out there than you can shake a 
stick at. I would also guess that Drupal is not on Paul's most 
favourite apps list. (-:

Is there a better vehicle out there for Paul's requirements? 
(Revision tracking would appear to be a defining functionality.)

Sy Ali wrote, On 1/18/2007 4:16 AM:
> On 1/17/07, Paul Nijjar <pnijjar at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>>         0. Reasonable syntax (Markdown would be good but it certainly is
>> not necessary. The ability to have multiple levels of bullet lists and
>> good whitespace would be nice). Non-techies need to use this.
> 
> Consider a WYSIWYG-type editor.  However, nothing has been found which
> allows for maintaining a reasonable revision-history.  These editors
> seem to mangle the source markup.
> 
> There is a good rumour that a mediawiki-compatible editor is in the
> works and will be ready in the next few months (i.e. it has commercial
> backing)
> 
> 
>>         3. Good access control (really, I want to lock this thing down to
>> only a few users, but those users may access  the wiki from anywhere on
>> the Internet)
> 
> mediawiki allows this quite easily.
> 
> 
>>         6. Good email notifications that indicate what the most recent
>> changes are
> 
> Is an RSS-feed good?  I think there might be an extension to email
> changes.  Watchlists exist, and you can filter out your own changes
> from the changelist.
> 
> 
>>         I was looking at MediaWiki but after skimming through the
>> documentation it looks like access control is a pain.
> 
> It lacks fine-grained permissions - i.e. per-page unix-style permissions.
> 
> But you could lock the entire wiki down except for a few users.  This
> is simple to do.  And it's trivial for an admin to make a new user and
> email the user their account information.
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