[Mediawiki-l] Animal Kingdom Database

Thu Aug 4 18:41:09 UTC 2005

Drupal is a good CMS...

but as for a wiki.. unless its a public wiki and you want other people 
to be able to edit the content i dont suggest it

but if you DO want people editing all the pages it is probly a good idea

just my opinion thou

Mike Valstar

David Blomstrom wrote:

> I want to learn how to make a content management system for a website 
> focusing on the animal kingdom. It will be somewhat similar to the 
> Animal Diversity Web. Here's an example of their pages:
>
> http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Canis_lupus.html 
>
>
> But my site will have more features, and the appearance will be more 
> refined. The body will consist of three columns, with advertising in 
> the right column. I would like the URLs to display like this:
>
> www.geozoo.org/stacks/Carnivora/
> www.geozoo.org/stacks/Canidae/
> www.geozoo.org/stacks/Canis_lupus/
>
> Would MediaWiki be a good choice for a project like this?  I was 
> thinking about trying Mambo, but I haven't even received answers to my 
> most basic questions on their users list. I downloaded and installed 
> Plone, which is what the Animal Diversity Web, but it's a can of worms 
> - not even remotely user friendly.
>
> Thanks.
>