I've been working with wiki-variants for kinda a while -- kwiki came along with a few new (at the time) features, including primitive ACLs (usernames) and a...
Hi all ;) I am looking for a WikiEngine, preferably a PHP/MySql-based one, that has the ability to comment on WikiPages. I know, that sound odd. Let me ...
Wikipedia has a similar situation, where they have a 'discuss' page attached to each encyclopedia page, with the idea being to keep discussion type stuff ...
... I don't know of any others. The reason this is so rare is because many folks see this as a strength of wiki - the question or comment goes exactly where...
John Abbe
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Mar 12, 2004 3:50 am
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... Why not have the handbook as static (normal nonWiki) pages, which in the footer has a link to comment on this page. This link then takes the user to a wiki...
Hi! Tiki CMS/Groupware is very well suited for what you describe. Tiki can use many databases (including mysql) thanks the ADOdb abstraction layer. ...
... The handbook has to be editable, but not by everyone, even if everyone should be able to leave comments. cu, Sascha -- Sascha Carlin * Heinrich-Heine-Str....
We're very close to going public with the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation wiki (no, really :) ; the biggest remaining non-tech issue is...
John Abbe
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Mar 14, 2004 11:47 am
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Meatball has a multilevel copyright scheme. We begin by making minimal claims. Each page can then have a particular copyright if that's deemed necessary. So,...
That last part i wrote seemed completely opaque when i read it over so let me try again: Some people think a proprietary license indicates you will use the law...
John Abbe
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Mar 14, 2004 10:18 pm
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I feel jealous. Hm, need, need...? (fifteen minutes later) Companionship, actually companionship and meaning combined together...now the jealousy mutates to...
John Abbe
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Mar 15, 2004 7:15 am
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(too many f'ing mailing lists, not enough sleep...sorry) Life, John -- All you /\/\ John Abbe "Faith is not belief without proof, need \ /...
John Abbe
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Mar 15, 2004 3:59 pm
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I've greatly updated the dusty WikiSyntax list with a view towards a wiki parser model and then a wiki interchange format by the end of the year. Please feel...
... fyi, there've been discussions on the Interwiki list [1] regarding interchange, the following is my own personal take on these. IMHO the best bet for Wiki...
Danny writes, ... It'd be simpler to just use an <iframe> transcluding the original source then. That way the data would always be current. Really nice wikis...
Danny writes, ... Sorry, I've been up all night. I missed this part. Yes, I saw your blog entry from before. I'm of the mind to use as much of XHTML as...
Anyone know what makes a work sufficiently different that it becomes an original rather than a derivative work? ... Can you point me to what in the Berne...
John Abbe
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Mar 20, 2004 1:33 pm
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... The concept of original in copyright law is pretty loose, encompassing any creative act, no matter how small. But that isn't what you're asking. You're...
... More precisely, i'm asking what happens with wiki-style editing. For example, if i read something like this: "FooBar is a useful pattern; it helped me...
John Abbe
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Mar 21, 2004 10:43 am
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I've given up on the term 'wiki'. I think it's been destroyed. See: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WhatIsaWiki Comments? SS...
Hi Wikiers, at TWiki.org we had WikiSpam three times, done by the same person/group (judging from the IP address). In total, around 200 pages have been spammed...
Hi Peter: How did your visitor get past your login/password routine? John ... From: Peter Thoeny [mailto:peter@...] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 9:24 AM...
Hi John, Tho in the throes of tax season I recently discovered that "bridges" still exists. Sort of amazing. I also saw where Ward is now working at MS? ...
Gene Prescott
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Apr 12, 2004 2:20 pm
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Hi Gene: Good to hear from you. I heard the same about Ward and here is a story in one of the Seattle papers: ...
On TWiki.org they automated registering. We now protect against too many writes into too short a space of time (blacklist plugin = surge protection) but I...
Hi, I'm a wiki user on a brand new wiki. Most of the time it seems I'm the only one posting... not much of a conversation going on there yet. My question is...
Hi! It is useful to have a push component to your wiki site. For example: *A periodical newsletter with noteworthy changes. *RSS feeds on wiki changes *A watch...
... I asked Ward about this once and he wrote the following: First few months sets the tone. Watch it carefully then. Invite people to visit and contribute....
John Abbe
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May 6, 2004 1:39 pm
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Not sure you can really do so much a bout it. In our (Intranet-only) Twiki, you can subscribe to a daily list of changed pages per directory. But not many...
With the wiki efforts I've been involved with I find that the best driver to getting content in there is to build a strong community whose underlying ...