[W126 Coupe] Member Pics: Wiki?

[Dawid Loubser]

Hi Satish,

A wiki is simply a site (like Wikipedia) which allows any registered  
user to edit
any page, upload images, etc. Effectively, it allows the community to  
directly
drive and create the site. It *does* involve losing a bit of control,  
but, on the other
hand, having an 'organic' site that grows with time, without one person
having to maintain it.

It requires installation of wiki software on the server (of which  
there are
many, many freely available) but most systems support it. I would  
imagine we could
directly install it on wherever mbcoupes.com is currently hosted.

The best software is probably MediaWiki (the actual engine on which  
wikipedia
runs) as it's mature, stable, and open-source.

So I guess it boils down to: do you want to retain full control over  
the site, or let the
community drive it? Administrators could of course retain utmost  
control, revert changes,
lock pages, ban users, etc.


On 13 Nov 2007, at 1:20 nm., Satish Tummala, M.D. wrote:


> Elaborate about wiki, etc.  Or perhaps a script allowing the member  

> to upload the image onto the site directly.  Perhaps that would be  

> the best solution.

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> Satish

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> From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes- 

> bounces at mbcoupes.com] On Behalf Of Dawid Loubser

> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:18 AM

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> Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Member Pics: Wiki?

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> Of course - nobody could be expected to manually maintain such a  

> page! Satish: Why don't we set up

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> a wiki or some other form of collaborative software (I'm happy to  

> help / do that for you) so that members

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> can maintain their own car info and photographs.

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> If have, for a while, been thinking that something like a wiki  

> could be a good way to approach this

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> mailing list - since we are founded on community knowledge, the  

> community can also build the site.

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> Community-driven articles and knowledge, all in one place. With  

> good categorization and searching

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> features. All of this can be had for free with little effort.

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> Dawid

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> On 09 Nov 2007, at 11:18 nm., Paul Samarin wrote:

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> No, you are certainly not unwelcome to join.  This is a great group  

> and everyone's welcome.  The pics are just not a high priority for  

> Satish, I think.  A couple other guys have sites where you can post  

> your pics.  They'll chime in soon, probably.

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> Paul

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> On Nov 9, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Doc wrote:

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> It has been 2 years now and I have been trying to get my car up  

> along side all of yours.  I soke to Sattish via email at one point  

> about a 18 months ago and his photshop was down or something.  Am I  

> unwelcome here to join you or?

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> Has anyone got a clue what I should do?

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> I want to show my 560 off with the lot of you....

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> Rick Montgomery

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