On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:01:20PM +0100, Rob Church wrote:
On 30/08/06, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
Okay. Seems I misread which bug/feature you were talking about.
I have stated, and continue to maintain, that to implement strong, per-page access controls, to the level that some organisations require, within MediaWiki would require a considerable rewrite and a rethink of a lot of aspects of the software, and that such a change would *not* be consistent with the purpose and intended use case for MediaWiki.
"... for it's primary development customer, the Wikimedia Foundation, who are paying the bills." But I undersatdn your point, entirely, Rob; don't take that as a challenge.
Organisations which "cannot implement MediaWiki" because of this should seek an appropriate document management solution for their needs, that is, obtain (purchase, if needs be - it would be worth it) software that was *written for their intended use*. MediaWiki as a project isn't seeking to become the world's #1 commercially-used wiki package.
Quite so.
I'm very fond of WebGUI, which has one of the two major wikiattributes, easy page creation and version tracking/revert, now. Adding the other one.
The other attribute -- easier text markup through wikitext -- it does not have, but it wouldn't be that hard to add.
Cheers, -- jra