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#1 2009-05-04 14:43:22
- Sherif
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How to create a tab for static wiki
Hi All,
I'm new to Wiki's and I would like to create a wiki, which includes a static copy for certain pages of the Admin's choosing.
Scenario:
A wiki page on Math. I would like there to be two copies of the pages
1) anyone can edit (the real wiki page)
2) The Second page which only the admin can edit.
Reason:
Give the users the flexability to say whatever they want, while giving the Admins their "official" version.
Questions:
1) Whcih wiki software Should I use?
2)How can I edit the software to do something like this?
Last edited by Sherif (2009-05-04 14:44:37)
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#2 2009-05-04 23:37:50
Re: How to create a tab for static wiki
Although many wiki engines do give you the ability to set that up (see http://www.wikimatrix.org/search.php?sid=555), it's usually a bad idea to do that to your community. The message you give is "Children, play here but I will be the author of this site, taking the best of your work from you". I takes a lot of effort to make the wiki feel like it belongs to its users, to make them care for it and be proud of it. Don't make it even harder. It's very frustrating when there is an error in a part of the wiki that you can't edit and fix. Remember also that sweeping the mess under the rug is only going to make people care less about cleaning it, so the discussion pages are much more likely to become incomprehensible mess.
If you need to have an "official" site, make it a separate website, not a wiki. Make it clear, through the looks and/or address that it's separate from the wiki, and always give credit when you use materials from the wiki (or even better, make the official site link to the wiki, then the materials can be still improved). Remember that the wiki is not an answer to all the problems, and that you should use and combine different tools to achieve the best results.
See http://wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/Gate and http://wikipatterns.com/display/wikipat … eOwnership
I hope this helps. Of course your mileage may vary, and maybe your particular use case is perfect for using the comment pages...
By the way, I think this post belongs in the "need advice" category, maybe someone could move it there?
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#3 2009-05-05 01:41:01
- Sherif
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Re: How to create a tab for static wiki
Thanks man,
I obviously don't want to patronize my community, but at the same time I need to be responsible of the some of information on there, while not affecting their freedom to post.
Context:
I train IT course and what I want, it is to post the course online (giving away the information) and have my community edit and build new content organically. Its often the case with these courses that you learn so much from the students and share their knowledge.
On the other hand I want to make sure they know what they are going to be examined on, which will always be narrower than their content, and its more important to get it right and its my responsibility.
My plan is to and an extra tab (like edit, discussion, history in wikipedia) what is specific to admin created articles.
So if an admin creates an article two copies of the article are created. one in the normal page tab the other in the new "admin" tab.
Thus users can edit more frequently and the admin page gets updated either when the exam is updated or for corrections etc....
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#4 2009-05-06 09:04:15
Re: How to create a tab for static wiki
Since wikis inherited the http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OnceAndOnlyOnce strategy, most of wiki engines avoid introducing easy and automated ways of duplicating content. The idea is that pages should contain maximum of useful information and minimum of filler. Of course this changes as the wikis evolve, but I still don't know of any that implements what you described exactly.
Maybe you don't really want a wiki, but some kind of a blog with comments, or even a book with the possibility of commenting, like http://www.djangobook.com/about/comments/ ?
Last edited by TheSheep (2009-05-06 09:12:28)
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