[WikiEN-l] Re: SD Magazine article: The Wiki Way

Tue Mar 8 07:26:25 UTC 2005

Can you add this to [[WP:Press]]?

TBSDY

Poor, Edmund W wrote:
> The April 2005 edition of Software Development Magazine has an article
> Rick Wayne wrote about wiki software, and MediaWiki has BY FAR the
> nicest screen shots. You'll recognize the yellow flower and the
> puzzle-world right away. It's in the April 2005 edition, which just
> arrived in my snail mailbox today at work. (The online version lags a
> few days behind, but I'll send in the URL once it's up. And, no, this is
> not an April Fool's joke; I never joke around about the *really*
> important stuff!)
> 
> Here's the caption for the Sample Wikipedia Page:
> 
> "The Wikipedia is the canonical example of what you can do with
> MediaWiki; here's the entry on data structures, with the navigation bar
> at the left and the toolbar on the top." (P. 32)
> 
> Wayne also mentions Wiki Woes:
> 
> "Vandals. Unless you're trying for the widest possible user community,
> it's best to hide your wiki behind some sort of access control.
> Otherwise, the maladjusted may take advantage of the Edit This Page
> button until you're ready to chuck the whole thing. . . ." (P. 33)
> 
> Who knows? Maybe we'll get a flurry of contributions to our
> computer-programming articles.
> 
> Uncle Ed
> (still alive and kickin')