Re: Public wiki?

From: Stefano Mazzocchi <stefanom_at_mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:01:12 -0500

Ryan Lee wrote:

>> I was also toying with the idea of installing WikiMedia instead of
>> MoinMoin.
>
> Are you looking to gain something in addition to its familiarity via
> Wikipedia?

No, not really.

>> nono, hosting is not the problem, it's actually already there
>>
>> http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/
>>
>> and it contains already a good amount of background even if most of
>> this stuff is now probably obsolete, or even just private to the
>> project (like meeting schedules and stuff like that).
>>
>> I'll play around with wikimedia when I have a little time and see how
>> that works.
>>
>> Ryan, suggestions?
>
> We do have two pages open to the public - account creation and the piggy
> bank demo page. I installed a content filter that's kept the page free
> of spam for the past twenty days. It's a blacklist, but it is kept up
> to date by the community on a fairly regular basis, and you can add to a
> local appendix yourself.
>
> Perhaps we can open up the whole wiki for a bit while keeping the
> blacklist pages locked down and see how it goes.

Sure, the simplest thing that can work. Why not.

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Stefano Mazzocchi
Research Scientist                 Digital Libraries Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology            location: E25-131C
77 Massachusetts Ave                   telephone: +1 (617) 253-1096
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