[IAEP] Wiki editing

2013-02-02 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Ron Feigenblatt wrote: > On 2/2/13, Chris Leonard wrote: > >... Please just make the changes you think need to be made, that is why we > > keep information on a wiki, so that anyone can contribute to improving > > it's quality or discoverability. > > Chris, are yo

[IAEP] Wiki editing

2013-02-02 Thread Ron Feigenblatt
On 2/2/13, Frederick Grose 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 leade

Re: [IAEP] Wiki editing

2013-02-02 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Ron Feigenblatt wrote: > 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?

Re: [IAEP] Wiki editing

2013-02-02 Thread DancesWithCars
So GothWriter, in a newly created account, because DWC, in his advanced and sleep deprived years, can't remember his passwords states "Wikis S***" and other contraversial (0) statements like "MIT should RSS everything they publish, read, or give their paid students access to, free to anyone who

Re: [IAEP] Wiki editing

2013-02-05 Thread James Simmons
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 th