discuss: status report author checkup
Subject:
Re: status report author checkup
From:
Martin Wheeler ####@####.####
Date:
12 Aug 2005 19:15:23 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0508122007400.21224@chaucer.startext.demon.co.uk>
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 ####@####.#### wrote:
>> A wiki is (or can be used as) a (free-format, collaborative)
>> database (and a content managment system). If I needed a database
>> as you describe I'd think seriously about "prototyping" it with a wiki.
> Randy and jdd bring up some good/valid points.
. . .
> I now think it's time
> for a shift. We've been stagnating for a long time now and bringing
> in the wiki technology might be exactly what we need.
For any readers of this list who would like to 'play' with some real live
wikis, there are samples of about half-a-dozen of them at:
http://startext.demon.co.uk/
-- there are probably a few working content management systems there to
play with too.
Feel free to create pages, documents, add comments to what's already there
(mainly satirical, cynical texts and comments) -- as it's a teaching /
training site, the content tends to be *very* undergraduate.
But if you've never used a wiki, and are put off by the 'big' sites
(wikipedia, etc.), these are fairly pain-free sites to learn from.
Have fun.
Cheers,
--
Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT / AVALONIX - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England
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