[opencms-dev] OpenCms wiki online

[Jan Meier]

Am Mittwoch 01 November 2006 14:52 schrieb Ron Wheeler:
> One of the things that I have seen on other projects is a notification
> of changes to the wiki where e-mails get sent whenever the wiki changes.
> In one forum, the forum ( in our case - "opencms-dev at opencms.org") was
> signed up as a wiki participant with notification so that the mailing
> list gets notification of changes to the wiki. This meant that eveyone
> was aware of wiki changes with the author having to write a separate not
> to the forum. It generates a fair amount of traffic in the forum but
> they are easy to identify.
> I do not know if the wiki software supports this but we might try it. It
> will be really useful in the initial stages of getting the wiki going.

I do not think that it is useful that every change to the wiki is sent to this 
mailinglist. I can set up a mailinglist for the wiki discussions, if you 
think this would be *really* needed. In my opinion it is enough what 
mediawiki ships, for every page you can edit a discussion page.

If you want to monitor the wiki you can take a look at the "special" pages:

http://opencms-wiki.org/index.php/Special:Specialpages

Regards

Jan

> Marcus Popetz wrote:
> > On 11/1/06, Ron Wheeler <rwheeler at artifact-software.com> wrote:
> >> There is no reason to prevent the wiki  from linking to existing
> >> material.
> >> That might be a very good way to populate much of the wiki's currently
> >> empty pages.
> >>
> >> "This topic is currently covered (very well) by http://URL."
> >> or
> >> "This topic is not well covered elsewhere at this time but you will find
> >> some information at the following forums and web pages:
> >>     list of URLs"
> >
> > That sounds like a good approach then.  I'll link up a couple of the
> > tutorials form the wiki and see how it goes.
> >
> > -mp