On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:07:37 -0500 (EST)
Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Can anyone think of another place a community docs wiki could go at?

CMD will host anything you need.

Basically all it would take to get this off the ground is a host running PHP 5.0+ and PostgreSQL 8.1+ (with tsearch2) that the current Mediawiki distribution could be installed into; PHP 5.1 and PG 8.2 would be preferred. The main install instructions are at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki and I know they're good because I fixed the parts that weren't when I last installed one of these.

The main open question for initial post-install configuration is how to deal with edit privledges. I think this one would be OK with letting anyone sign up for an account in an automated way, rather than requiring a human approval like the Developer's wiki does, but only allow registered accounts to edit. That will give some defense against the spammers while not making life difficult for the person who just wants to submit something at random one day.

I could help out with the initial setup, you could just have somebody internally do the install and let me have an account when it's ready, whatever makes sense for you. I have two articles I can submit as examples of a good format for people to use to push some initial content in there, I may turn those into a template or something. Let me know what I can do to help get this going.

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* Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

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