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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

Agree with you Chad (and others worldwide apparently) on the weaknesses 
of the WOW-EM (wide open wiki editing model).
Appreciate your explanation of the moderation method you've been working 
on, which seems to have evolved well from our previous conversations 
about how to deal with those sorts of issues.
Agree with your assessment - we need to do better/different than wikis 
on this issue from the start and what you propose sounds good to me so far.
I do not recall in our original project intent any need to enable people 
with no credentials or credibility whatsoever to put stupid stuff into 
PIW, or to bog it down in edit wars etc.
So I don't support making that possible in PIW.
Someone can start a wiki for that if they really want to do it.

> I've been thinking of adding STX (Structured TeXt from Zope and
> others) support to text bodies to allow easy end user formating of
> comments and articles.  Also STX features would probably be translated
> to kfml for true portability.

Suggest using ReStructuredText, an evolution of STX that has addressed 
some of the issues in the original STX as well as adding some more 
sophisticated stuff to what can be done with that kind of markup.

For a WYSIWYG browser-based user editing tool option, see the Kupu 
project, which forked from what was originally a zope-only product 
called Epoz to become a more or less stand-alone modular and 
pluginnable/customizable solution:

http://kupu.oscom.org/

cheers,
John S.

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