The Booki software used to write FLOSS Manuals is an interesting approach to a Wiki. Anyone can edit a page, just like any other Wiki, but you can also publish a separate, static version of the pages and you can control who gets to publish these pages. This gives you both worlds: a static page that is endorsed by an editor and a collaborative environment to create and edit pages. As a bonus you can generate a PDF of your site in a suitable format for print on demand publishing.
This would be overkill for a lot of things, but it there was a subset of the wiki that would benefit from tighter control on content then Booki gives you a pretty good way of achieving that. James Simmons On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Ron Feigenblatt <doc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/2/13, Frederick Grose <fgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Be assured that all changes saved in a wiki can be recovered from the > 'View > > history' tab for a page. > > Indeed. But sometimes one has worthy reasons for assigning pre-emptive > editorial power over a page to an individual. For example, shouldn't > the current leader of the Marketing Team have exclusive write-control > over the Marketing Team page? That need not prevent petitioners from > making change suggestions on its Discussion page, as you noted > immediately below. > > > While one is reconstructing an existing page, it is often best to copy it > > to a separate page as content details are worked out. Open discussion > (on > > the associated 'Discussion' page) with other interested authors will > > generally lead to improvements. > > Having a "watch" set on a page is not the same as having the time to > respond to changes every week, much less every hour. > > I think it would be useful if everyone with wiki login credentials had > a quota of space for creating content they ALONE can write. Not only > could they create NEW content they alone control, but they could also > create and nominate full-blown REVISIONS of content OTHER people alone > control for linking from the respective Discussion page of the latter. > > The Wikipedia article on the Wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki > interprets Wiki creator Ward Cunningham's book so: "A wiki is not a > carefully crafted site for casual visitors." If one accepts this, then > it might be useful for a heading on EVERY page of the wiki to state > just that and link to a conjugate non-Wiki Website for such casual > visitors. That way, e.g., Sean Daly's prospective wiki-illiterate > teachers would not be denied the chance to peruse the wiki, but at the > same time would be properly served by immediate referral to the > material intended for their eyes. > > I hope you will also consider the Wiki education suggestion I made on > your personal page. > > For about a third decade, between summer 2005 and late 2008, I tried > to seed wiki literacy in my literacy-phobic rural USA community. It > started with a digital technology course I gave at a new local public > library, whose remarks about wikis lie within the lesson on > asynchronous groupware at > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gahchs/BHPL/FOTL/DigTech/Chapter4/ > > I only managed to get two people to attempt wiki writing. One was a > woman in her 30's with a Bachelor's degree in Russian who commuted to > work in India, and had experience as an exchange student in Russia. > The other woman, in her 40's, was a non-degreed engineer who manages a > state highway construction crew, and whom I think recently became a > member of the county development authority. Both gave up almost > immediately due to the challenge, rather than their disbelief in the > utility of wiki-writing. (I had them try using Wikispaces.) > > The first public evidence of wiki literacy in this part of the state I > encountered was a link to a staff-only wiki on a public Web page of > the regional public library system within the last couple of years. > (Aside: I must say that I was shocked that as C-SPAN's BookTV > programming celebrated its fifth anniversary some years ago, I > discovered that the assistant director of this regional system had > never heard of its existence.) > > Let me close by assuring you that my previous inquiry was not > rhetorical: Frederick, is it possible to give an individual user the > exclusive power to write a particular wiki page within the MediaWiki > system we use here at Sugar Labs? Thanks. > > Ron > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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