[iaoa-education] IAOA Education Committee Meeting n.27 on Tue, Mar 06, 2018: announcement

[Todd Schneider]

Gang,

Some questions and possible refinements to the requirements:

0) Are these requirements for a Wiki for the Education committee, just 
the term list, or all of IAOA?
1) Access Control:  Does 'anyone' really mean anyone? Or is it 
restricted to IAOA members?
2) Auditing: Does there need to be an audit trail that identifies the 
user and date-time when changes were made?
3) Uploading: Adding images to pages?
4) Commenting: Commenting on what? Does this include attachments/links?
5) Branding: Who's brand?
6) IAOA Linking: Is this Wiki to be accessible from an IAOA page?

Todd

On 3/6/18 9:01 AM, Maria Keet wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I've copied below the draft Wiki migration requirements and 
> considerations. For the meeting later today: in using the current 
> wiki, do you perceive the need for more features (first list of items)?
>
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> Requirements:
> - anyone can edit
> - to prevent hacks, with a password
> - least effort in migration. It currently uses PMWiki, so a ‘copy’ 
> would be fastest (note: PMWiki does not offer user management, i.e., 
> anon edits only, and is not a semantic wiki).
> - adding pictures or files within the same wiki-world would be useful
> - there has been mention of the possibility of adding comments, alike 
> a forum capability. PMWiki does not offer this features
> - some branding with the url, i.e., not in a ‘corner’ of the Web
> - display IAOA logo (or our own)
> - A bibliography feature?
> - perhaps with user names rather than anonymous as it is now?
> - any other requirements or wishes?
>
> Regarding alternatives:
>
> If other wiki software, in case the other features are now deemed 
> needed and those wikis have them:
> - downside is that then need to manually recreate  contents 
> (copy-paste, edit for syntax).
>
> If Semantic wiki: in theory good, but note
> - who has experience in practice to actually get the semantics in?
> - what sort of queries/dynamic content would be ‘interesting’ for a 
> visitor? If hardly any, than what’s the point? If so: please provide 
> examples of possible good use of semantic wiki features.
> - pro: walking the walk…
>
> If blogging software, such as migrating to wordpress:
> - more cumbersome to edit than a wiki
> - more cumbersome to create user logins, so increases the hurdle for 
> people to contribute
> - WP at least isn’t good for managing (very) many pages (but we’ll 
> have a lot if each term gets its own page)
> - need to manually recreate  contents (copy-paste, edit for syntax and 
> layout)
> - pro: may be easier to integrate with the iaoa website?
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>
> Regards,
> Maria
>