Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Design proposal -> Wiki

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> 
> > Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > > How about setting up a TWiki, such as is at freebooks.myip.org?
> > > This way, we can all post documents and commentary freely to the 
> > > site, with no central webmaster to bottleneck things up.  
> > 
> > We would certainly welcome discussion of this on wikipedia.com, a
> > side project we've been playing around with at Nupedia.
> > 
> > It's there for you to use.  :-)  Welcome!
> 
> Ah, perfect!  And potentially a sign of solidarity, I hope...
> 
> Now, there are some improvements that can be made, but I'll list
> those in the next email.


1.  Switch to TWiki.

Presently, wikipedia appears to be running the original Wiki, which is
fine, but is deficient of some rather handy features that we'll want,
such as accounts, revision control, allowing of formats other than
WikiText (e.g., XML or HTML), automatic indexes, etc.  See www.twiki.org
for more info.


2.  Include an upload capability.

I believe TWiki may already have a web upload function, but in any case,
we'll want such a thing, for purpose of adding images, etc.  


3.  Add digital signature of articles.

Personally, I don't consider this to be all that necessary, but several
people are keen on this requirement.  


4.  Consider adding a "delete" function

Neither this Wiki nor TWiki has any ability to remove a topic once its
page has been created.  (You can, however, delete all the text on the
page, but the info will be present in the revision history.)  There are
good sides and bad sides to having a web-accessable topic delete
capability, of course...


5.  Probably other issues, but I'm sure others will bring them up.  ;-)

Bryce