On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event

Posted May 2, 2010 17:56 UTC (Sun) by k8to (guest, #15413)
In reply to: On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event by n8willis
Parent article: On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event

There's your problem. MediaWiki isn't much of a wiki, having far too much impenetrable syntax, and kind of failing at the discussion concept.

On a traditional wiki links are MadeLinkThis and external links are http://made.like.this.example.com/foo

Nothing to get wrong, nothing to misunderstand.

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On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event

Posted May 2, 2010 22:20 UTC (Sun) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link] (3 responses)

On a traditional wiki links are MadeLinkThis and external links are http://made.like.this.example.com/foo

That's definitely another strike against it in my book. In addition, the point remains that unless the document that you are trying to create is designed to have wiki-like public editability, there is no reason to limit your search for CMS software to the wiki-only subset of available projects. Any more than there is to limit your search to blog-based packages like Wordpress. Yes, you can create good static, non-blog sites with Wordpress. But if you don't do a serious comparison against Drupal, Joomla, Scoop, Xaraya, TYPO3 -- and the dozens and dozens of others -- you make a poorly-informed decision. And you miss out on functionality that you find out further down the road that you need.

Nate

On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event

Posted May 3, 2010 23:44 UTC (Mon) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link] (2 responses)

You missed it.

If you need a CMS, you should get a CMS. However, they have somewhat poor collaboration.

If instead your goal is really the kind of collaboration empowered by low-friction wiki environments, you sould employ a tasteful subset of the wikis out there, and you'll see vastly more powerful results out of the interaction than any CMS will provide.

On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event

Posted May 4, 2010 13:50 UTC (Tue) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link] (1 responses)

Collaboration != "low friction" text editing. To keep distributed teams in sync on complex tasks, you need a more powerful solution -- for the reasons I already outlined.

Nate

On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event

Posted May 4, 2010 15:10 UTC (Tue) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

I think I disagree with your equation, and that we have pretty different ideas about the definition of that word. Oh well.