wikiwikiwawa wrote:

Users apply for accounts but do not gain access until approved by admin.... OR the admin handles all user registration.

Many Wikis can be restricted to logged in users only. Most of them can disable the open registration. DokuWiki is one of them.

wikiwikiwawa wrote:

If an edit is made the change does not go live until approved by a defined group.

This was asked multiple times. To quote my self:

Moderation of edits takes the quick out of wiki (wiki wiki means quick in Hawaian) and renders it practically useless.

People thinking about installing a Wiki for the first time often make the mistake to think about restrictions too much in the first place. My recommendation is: don't add any restrictions until you need them. Leave everything open, see how it works, then adjust. Give the community a chance to handle vandals and spammers - if the place is useful to the people they will keep it clean. If opening is not an option maybe a Wiki isn't the right tool at all...

I have seen this many times with wikis at the workplace: Initially when an organization starts to use a wiki, content tends to be locked down, one area per group. Then after 6 month or a year, managers (and individual contributors) begin to understand that the "soft security" of a wiki takes care of the content: The users are in charge of security & quality control, not the system. With this, they start to open up the wiki for all employees to edit freely.


-- Peter AT StructuredWikis DOT com - http://www.structuredwikis.com/ - http://twiki.org/

TikiWiki CMS/Groupware 1.10 (now in Beta) offers this feature.

Check out the screencast:
http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Wiki+Page+Staging+and+Approval

It is used in production on http://support.mozilla.com

It also works with the new synchronized translation feature.
http://wiki-translation.com/CLWE+Demo+Screencast

Best regards,

M