On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:28:27AM -0700, Karl Wick wrote:

If the main reason to have a required sign-in for page editing is to fight against vandals, is there another solution that would have the same benefits without the drawbacks ? The idea springs to mind to have a quick administrative function to revert to earlier page versions. It sounds like currently it is a hassle to revert vandalized pages. Is this true ? Would it be possible and reasonable to develop a one-click page revert function for admins ?

We already have this.

Karl Wick wrote in part:

I like the idea of making every textbook compilable into one printable document. Would it be feasible to add the feature to change the default order of book sections ? In my organic chemistry books the total content covered is the same but the order in which it is presented is not, and some professors and students prefer one order to another.

Given what mav said yesterday about different books using the same modules, we could have several different OChem books (or courses? sequences?) that reuse the same OChem (or maybe just Chem) modules in different orders. You can present various options for a final linear order, and of course anybody could create their own out of the existing modules, perhaps using the previously presented options as a guide.

-- Toby