[W126 Coupe] Member Pics: Wiki?

[PAULS at sbcglobal.net]

Interesting.  You say that Administrators can have more robust
authority, so that would mean at least two levels of "membership"
I guess.  

How would that be different from, say, Satish giving the website
password to some number of folks as Administrators and having
them help update the site?

It sounds like a wiki means everyone can edit and an assigned few
can override the edits, while a standard set-up with several
"administrators" has only those few sharing editing duties.  Do I
have that right?

Paul


--- Original Message ---
From: Dawid Loubser <dawidl at solms.co.za>
To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists <mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com>
Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Member Pics: Wiki?


>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.

>>

>>

>>

>> Satish

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> 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

>> To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists

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

>>

>>

>>

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

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

>>

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

to  

>> help / do that for you) so that members

>>

>> can maintain their own car info and photographs.

>>

>>

>>

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

>> could be a good way to approach this

>>

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

>> community can also build the site.

>>

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

>> good categorization and searching

>>

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

>>

>>

>>

>> Dawid

>>

>>

>>

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

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> 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.

>>

>>

>>

>> Paul

>>

>>

>>

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

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> 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?

>>

>> Has anyone got a clue what I should do?

>>

>>

>>

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

>>

>>

>>

>> Rick Montgomery

>>

>> 1990 560SEC

>>

>> Diamond Bar, CA

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