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OSNews Asks: Recommend an Open Source Wiki Platform

Linked by David Adams on Mon 20th Jul 2009 23:13 UTC

If you haven't been to our OS Resources page lately, you haven't missed much action, because like many online resource pages, a lot of effort went into it long ago when it was launched, but it's been lacking attention since, with only occasional updates. Alas, thus is the sorrow of Web 1.0. We'd like to drag OS Resources into the participatory web, and let the OSNews community help keep it up to date. Wiki seems like an obvious solution. So I'd like to ask, dear readers, is there a Wiki system that you think would be especially good for a small-but-growing OS Resource guide? There's Mediawiki, of course, but it seems a bit heavyweight and user-unfriendly for something small and simple. I've had good experience with Mindtouch Deki, but thought I should examine other options before picking it. So what do you think? Is Wiki the way to go, if so, which one? And what would you like to see in our new OS Resources?

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RE[2]: Try PmWiki

by whartung on Tue 21st Jul 2009 00:06 UTC in reply to "RE: Try PmWiki"

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2005-07-06

I don't think we're ambitious enough to integrate this wiki with the OSNews accounts.

I think that's a mistake. OSNews eliminated anonymous responses for a reason, Why stop now?

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RE[3]: Try PmWiki

by David on Tue 21st Jul 2009 00:11 in reply to "RE[2]: Try PmWiki"

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1997-10-01

Maybe I'm just being naive, but I think the stakes won't be that high on the resources pages, because anything anyone posts that's not acceptable can just be backed out.

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Comment SPAM... BIG TIME.

by gfolkert on Tue 21st Jul 2009 17:18 in reply to "RE[3]: Try PmWiki"

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2008-12-15

I've seen Anonymous Wikis used for Porn, Viagra and many other things.

They are a pain to clean up because of the MASSIVE amounts of edits and additions they create.

Anonymous edits would seriously *SUCK*.

It'd better to just not have it if *that* is your reasoning.

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