Re: Public wiki?

From: Ryan Lee <ryanlee_at_w3.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:42:29 -0500

Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> 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.

The floodgates have reopened.

Are there other pages we feel should be protected? BadContent and
LocalBadContent are presently locked down, by necessity.

-- 
Ryan Lee                 ryanlee_at_w3.org
W3C Research Engineer    +1.617.253.5327
http://simile.mit.edu/
Received on Mon Nov 21 2005 - 20:36:25 EST

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