Note that mediawiki allows pages to be in several categories. Check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Categories
I think the main issues (mess) with the old wiki were:
- not being able to contact someone if information is incorrect / outdated
We would need category and page owners for this. I will have to think about
this.
- noone looking into pages that had become outdated
Agreed. I think we also faced the issue that we didn't know what was outdated.
That makes fixing it a harder problem
- not looking for pages that might be outdated
Categories and attention boxes should help
- most of the pages being immutable so you couldn't even fix stuff.
That is a MoinMoin feature (which should be resolved with MediaWiki). The
MoinMoin spamming protection is extremely primitive.
So if we limit edit rights to certain user groups that is not a
problem, as long as the groups are big enough to maintain the
categories.
MediaWiki has quite fine grained user control. I will have to think about how
to set this up, but my gut feel is we should have:
- Admins
- Editors (get notified when people make changes, owners of categories)
- Authors (anybody with an account)
Also it might be helpful to use a release mechanism - if any
registered user can create pages, but they stay invisible until
approval then this would save a lot of time for the regular authors
and still keep up quality. (Thats working really well in my
experience)
I think that is not advisable. I rather go for the WikiPedia approach, where
wrong changes are reverted by editors. I think we should try with an open model
and make it more restrictive it the open model doesn't work
Regards
Lars
On 30/10/2011 20:58, Florian Heigl wrote:
Hi Lars,
2011/10/28 Lars Kurth<lars.kurth@xxxxxxx>:
There may be a few more. Will need to work on these a little more. It may
also mean that the MediWiki instance is set up that pages must have a
category and that only a subset of users can create new ones. Otherwise we
get into the same mess again.
I think the main issues (mess) with the old wiki were:
- not being able to contact someone if information is incorrect / outdated
- noone looking into pages that had become outdated
- not looking for pages that might be outdated
- most of the pages being immutable so you couldn't even fix stuff.
So if we limit edit rights to certain user groups that is not a
problem, as long as the groups are big enough to maintain the
categories.
Also it might be helpful to use a release mechanism - if any
registered user can create pages, but they stay invisible until
approval then this would save a lot of time for the regular authors
and still keep up quality. (Thats working really well in my
experience)
Greetings
Florian
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