On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 08:55:48PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > On 2016-08-14 16:25, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > >Based on experience managing a number of wikis I think the workload > >involved in helping people who want to contribute at present but > >can't deal with ikiwiki is significantly lower than dealing with an > >open (or even approval based) wiki or CMS. > > I am not sure what you meant exactly by "deal", but recruitment of > contributors unable to *use* the current system is not the main > benefit I see. I was rather seeing a switch as a way to make > contributing more appealing.
Are you saying that you think people don't contribute because of the overhead of submitting changes to the ikiwiki+git system, rather than because they don't understand it? > As for the workload involved in dealing with wikis or CMS-s, were you > referring to content administration? I'm referring to the unfortunate way in which spammers attach themselves to any uncurated website that allows anonymous or easy registration submissions. I think we'd spend a lot more time cleaning things up if the system in use allowed such things, and that the website as a whole would suffer as a result - the negative impact of having to clean such things up would seriously outweigh the drive-by improvements from people who don't want to email webmaster@ or submit a Markdown patch. J. -- Revd Jonathan McDowell, ULC | Can I drink your juice? _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
