[ILUG] Re: wiki software

[Niall Walsh]

kevin lyda wrote:

>On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:44:29PM +0100, Nils Olofsson wrote:
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>>I think anything is better than whats up there now :)
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Agreed!  That was just put in as a holding page when the dns entry and 
apache config were done.

>>http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/ are using mediawiki, and it looks like a
>>wiki is an ideal solution for something that should include
>>teachers/student/volunteer etc.
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I don't think Wiki's are for everything, but they can be very useful.   
They also take monitoring (though it seems we have some volunteers).  I 
think we should probably be thinking of having a static site (which has 
a wiki duplicate which can be pulled across periodically) and a wiki.   
The wiki is for contributing, the static site should hold all the core 
information in a well presented, consistent manner (e.g. edited), and 
segregated for the targets (i.e. useful material for sys admins 
shouldn't be stumbled upon by a random Fooish teacher/student).   The 
wiki may go into further details, and the static site may simply link in 
places across for these details, but the key is to have a polished front 
no matter what work is going on.

>i'll make the weekend of the 28th/29th of may available and i'll set up
>twiki or mediawiki on the box (whichever you prefer).
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It may be easier to start with the wiki on another machine initially 
with simply the static site on linux.ie?

>  and maybe we
>could do some kind of irc virtual meeting amongst all the people who
>want to work on it?  perhaps #scoil on irc.linux.ie?
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Sounds like a good idea to me!   Let's see who's out there, what they 
have in mind and get things moving.

>kevin
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Niall Walsh

p.s. excuse the late return to the thread, just catching up from a weeks 
holiday :-)