RE: Wiki

From: Jim.Hyslop (jim.hyslop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-28 08:39:34

David Abrahams [SMTP:david.abrahams_at_[hidden]] wrote:
> From: "Jeff Garland" <jeff_at_[hidden]>
[about disclaimers]
> > I can add one -- of course so can you or anyone else.  Hence the beauty
of
> > the Wiki.
> 
> Yes, but I guess I'd prefer a more permanent, built-in notice.
I'm not an expert on Wikis, but from what I understand forcing a Wiki page
to be non-editable goes against the spirit of Wiki. OTOH, the cgi scripts
could probably be configured to add a standard disclaimer at the bottom (or
top) of each page displayed.

It doesn't have to be a one-or-the-other situation, by the way - the Yahoo
group extremeprogramming also has a Wiki site, and both are quite active and
useful. You might consider the wiki/YGroup combination to be analogous to
the Usenet pair comp.lang.c++.moderated/comp.lang.c++.

-- 
Jim