I think the one key to the question is how Wiki's work. Which is that several different wiki's support authenticated authoring, so the initial premise that wiki's don't allow authentication is a false premise. You can get everything you seem to want from software with an authenticated Wiki. Instead of using a wiki, you could use Google docs, or Quip or .... Lots of authenticated, collaborative editing software.
But that begs the question of who is editing. If you have not collected a group of people who care about the problem at hand, then worrying about the software is not particularly helpful. Which is what the comments pointing at community are about. If you have the community, then the question is what software tool that they prefer to use. And perhaps then the problem at hand may be getting a common habit of collaboration. the key question then becomes about the project (s) that you are trying to gather a group to chat about. This often is its own difficult task.... On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 12:08 PM Michael Barnes <barnmich...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 3:55 AM Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> > wrote: > > > There are multiple carriers of information on the internet. > > Mailing lists and USENET groups stress timeliness. > > Wikis by nature can be more in-depth but can suffer from edits from > > edits by anyone independent of qualifications. > > > > I repeat my question. Is there an alternative to wikis. > > The question is explicitly community and/or topic agnostic. > > > > > I believe what you are looking for is basically a source of information on > a topic provided by knowledgeable folks in a controlled environment. By > definition, a wiki is a collaborative site intended to receive input from > pretty much anybody. Depending on the software used, a wiki can be limited > in editing by specific members of the team, yet viewable by the public. > There are also FAQs, where questions can be posed and answers provided by > appropriate SMEs. These questions are typically submitted through some type > of customer support structure. Then there are forums (like this one), both > moderated and non-moderated. Questions are submitted by the membership and > answered by the membership. Viewing can be public or restricted to > membership. Membership may be open or require approval. These forums may be > hosted on private platforms (as this one is) or in a web environment such > as groups.io or Yahoo Groups. Once very popular, but not seen so much > lately (by me, anyway) are blogs run by individuals or entities wanting to > provide dissertation on specific topics. The site owner may author all the > articles or collect them from other sources, intending to be a repository > of data on a general subject, such as a hobby or process. > > So far, your request has been quite vague, hence the ranging responses. > Perhaps if you were more specific on exactly what you would like to do, you > might receive a better response. > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- John Sechrest . Need to schedule a meeting : http://sechrest.youcanbookme.com . . . . sechr...@gmail.com . @sechrest <http://www.twitter.com/sechrest> . http://www.oomaat.com . _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
