Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

["Brett Taylor" <brett AT webfroot.co.nz>]

I think if it's decided that a wiki is a good way to go, I'd recommend
MediaWiki, because it's the same software that Wikipedia uses.

Wikipedia has more users, so the wiki markup is more likely to be
familiar to visitors. On that note, any wiki-ware that forces the use
of CamelCase to create new pages I wouldn't recommend. CamelCase is a
tie-over from the first-generation of wiki software. But with
Wikipedia doing away with it, we should follow that best practice.

My NZD$0.02 (or is that $0.10 now...?)

On 8/28/06, Robin Sheat <robin AT kallisti.net.nz> wrote:
> On Monday 28 August 2006 14:47, Sam Stephens wrote:
> > But I don't think this is the way forward. I think it's fitting with the
> > whole CC philosophy to build on top of the hard work of others. Meaning
> > either a CMS, or a blog/wiki setup.
> Personally, I'm a big fan of wikis. (see my own site,
> http://www.kallisti.net.nz). Having a wiki side for content (this could also
> be used by people to post their own CC-licensed fiction or whatever if they
> liked), and a blog side for news (wordpress automatically syndicates with
> various blog trackers, so that would make it easier to be found) would be
> ideal in my mind.
>
> The only problem with wikis is that you need to have someone keeping an eye on
> updates to make sure it's not getting spammed, and that the content is
> appropriate. It's not too arduous once set up though (the wiki software I use
> automatically emails updates, has spamblocking software, etc)

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