On 2/27/07, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tom Purl wrote: > Ok, so the majority of people seem to be saying that the Google wiki > isn't very well-suited for our needs. Most notably, it's very likely > that it will severely inhibit contributions. I agree with this > whole-heartedly. > > Also, a lot of people are discussing third-party wiki hosting sites and > the possibility of running our wiki on donated server space. I think > this is a useful exercise in case we do end up not using the Google > wiki. > > However, there are still people, including Bram, who seem to feel pretty > strongly about using the Google wiki. Bram, are we going down the wrong > track by planning for a non-Google wiki? For this site, I think it's > very important that we get as close to a consensus as possible regarding > who will do the hosting. No, I don't feel strongly about using the Google wiki. It was just an idea that came up. Being able to use the large server base and cleverness of Google would be an advanage. But there are also disadvantages, mainly that it's not simple to let everybody edit the wiki. Using wikibooks.org sounds attractive, but I don't see any protection against spamming.
Indeed wikiboots.org seems to allow anonymous editing without registration. I think we need some wikimedia-based free service that requires user registration and supports the group-based comuunities. For us, that site is better which requires the user registered per group/community for editing, rather than any user registered for the site. This is fine line, even if site requires user registration for editing. I think we need some free-wiki-site that provides for group-based communities explicitly. Yakov