[Mediawiki-l] Re: groups

Thu Sep 29 20:00:52 UTC 2005

>Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:37:00 -0400
>From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] groups
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>On 9/29/05, Benoit Brosseau <brosseaub at mancomm.ca> wrote:
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>>ok i am new to this so bare with me
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>If you want to strip, feel free, but I'll keep my clothes on thanks.
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>>i have a class that i want to use mediawiki for
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>>i have 4 groups of students
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>>how do i set it up so :
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>>anyone can read all the content
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>>only members of the group can edit the group pages
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>>only members can leave comments
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>You really can't. It sounds like you are looking for a contents
>management system and not a wiki.
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>Mediawiki (like Ward Cunningham's wikiwiki web, and all the wikis in
>between is designed around the philosophy that anyone can edit, and
>everyone will police the result. It only supports very broad sets of
>capabilities for users, and doesn't really support a permissions model
>on individual artifacts.
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>Such questions come up here often, because users always want to warp
>software to meet their own ends. But as neat as mediawiki is as a wiki
>implementation, it's really not a good base for a restrictive content
>management system.
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>--
>Rick DeNatale
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>Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site
>http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/
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First let me apologies in advence for any typo since i am not a native 
english speaker

second WOW if what you say is true its very wierd ... while i am new to 
mediawiki i am not new to wikis. i have implemented wiki with 700 nurses 
using pmwiki and its easy (well not really) to do groups and implement 
ownership of pages so pepole can only edit a restricted set of pages. i 
understand the wiki philosophy and i runed completely open wikis for 
years but the probleme is that spam is getting so bad its rough to 
manage. The content would get replace, new page get created with links 
to porn site and while this is ok for most technology oriented pepole 
because they know they can just rool back to the last good version its 
confusing for the users and down right no acceptable in a school contexte.

i really like mediawiki but if it can support basic groups i will have 
to convince them to switch to pmwiki or usemod or sommething that 
support groups

thanks for your help