View Full Version : Wiki as a (temporary) solution?
Maxximus
07-29-2003, 02:46 PM
Personally I miss a good manual pretty badly (due to lack of knowledge of course :lol: ), but instead of waiting on a new manual it could be nice to have a Wiki. Manuals tend to be old news anyway.
When some of our newbie questions is answered here in the forum, we can enter it in the wiki ourselves.
There is a not too bad version available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwiki/. I wouldn't mind hosting it, if nessecary.
georgew
07-29-2003, 04:10 PM
A wiki isn't a bad idea...
Put the existing manual up under a wiki, then have the users edit it directly.
I assume you can moderate writes to a wiki with a user/password list of some sort so that you can restrict it to registered forum users.... Most of the ones I see are a free-for-all, even so, they don't seem to be abused very often...
Maxximus
07-30-2003, 01:09 AM
When used with a MySQL DB, it's saving all changes per page, so when it is abused, the moderator can change it back.
But with a little tweaking it can be easily done to restrict it to the forum users, even initial access.
If Lonnie and Tony agree with the wiki, I can do the tweaking if wanted.
lonnie
07-30-2003, 10:54 AM
Is it possible to compile a PDF or DOC manual from the wiki pages? I would think it to be ideal if we could collaborate on the manual and end up with a "standard" manual as well.
georgew
07-30-2003, 06:57 PM
I agree...
One note though.... I went to one of the wiki's that I frequent and discovered that they do indeed get vandalized from time to time.... about once a week. But each page of the wiki has a moderator that cleans up after vandals... 90% of the vandals come from random foreign countries, no evidence that any of the intended users ever vandalize it.... so with user logins, you are unlikely to see any vandals.
Maxximus
07-31-2003, 03:29 AM
Okay, I've checked http://tikiwiki.sourceforge.net/ out, and it's very feature-rich, including a Wiki2PDF function in the upcoming release.
I'll have a look at the tikiwiki, and see if there is a way to support the phpbb user tables.
Vandalizing can be a problem, but with revisioning, and perhaps an approval system it can be controlled.
Lonnie, do you think this is the way to go? If that's a yes, I don't mind putting some time in it.