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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 12:54:30 -0800
From: "Henri Yandell" <flamefew@gmail.com>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: wikis
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References: <454F9FB5.1020800@schor.com>

I think it comes down to what a wiki means to your community. The
classic sense is as a very random user-inclusive system for bits of
info. The other is as a much more structured system, possibly for
document management.

Your description below should go on the Incubator site or wiki - very
good summary.

Hen

On 11/6/06, Marshall Schor <msa@schor.com> wrote:
> There seem to be (at least) 2 wiki systems in use at Apache.
>
> One is based on moin-moin (python), and is for instance, found at
> wiki.apache.org/incubator-yoko
>
> Another one is based on confluence's wiki, and is found for instance, at
> cwiki.apache.org/geronimo/
>
> The cwiki may have additional capabilities.  For instance, some groups
> are using it to do collaborative authoring of documents.  For this, a
> permissions / login restriction is needed to insure contributors have
> done ICLAs.
>
> See: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CWIKI/Index
>
> The cwiki's wiki's are autoexported to plain html, whenever edits occur,
> so that high-volume serving can be done. This export facility can be
> used for a projects "web-site" as well; some projects are using it that
> way.  It appears that the Geranimo project started down that path but is
> not currently using a wiki for their web-site maintenance (they're using
> XDOC / Anakia).
>
> One other thing I've noticed is that with the confluence wiki it's
> possible to have comments on each page, and (optionally) show them. This
> might be interesting for building up community.  It might also be
> available with the moin-moin version.
>
> We're working on setting up the UIMA project, and I'd be interested in
> hearing opinions from the community about the pros/cons of the different
> approaches (perhaps there even are others in use at Apache?).
>
> -Marshall
>
>
>
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