QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Tue 30th June 2009, 9:51pm)
QUOTE(anthony @ Tue 30th June 2009, 6:20am)
What features are lacking in Mediawiki?
Lots. It would be great for a more conventional collaborative effort, such as a
corporate software or DB project, where you have control over the userbase.
But for writing an "encyclopedia", one that is wide-open to any random
net-loon for editing/disediting, it's crap.
I don't understand. You
want it to be wide-open to any random net-loon? Because, if not, it's trivial to set it up so it's not. I mean, Citizendium did so, didn't they?
QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Tue 30th June 2009, 9:51pm)
I'd like to see a better, more sophisticated article editor--one that generates
article formatting automatically wizard-style, with titles, sidebars, and references
autoplaced.
Well, yeah, that'd be nice, but that's going beyond the request of "JohnA" for something which "produces Wikipedia-like formatted result while using traditional editorial control and approval"
QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Tue 30th June 2009, 9:51pm)
Plus more sophisticated control of editor rights, if they're gonna leave
it wide-open. Think of all the insane vandalism and gaming they could reduce
if MediaWiki allowed certain restrictions on what new users and IP addresses
can do--perhaps they could be limited to working only on certain specially
tagged articles that need more work, or restricted in reversions or making
many small drive-by edits.
Well, I was responding to a particular question posed by JohnA. I'm going to quote it just in case someone missed it:
QUOTE(JohnA @ Tue 30th June 2009, 12:54pm)
Has anyone found open source software that produces Wikipedia-like formatted result while using traditional editorial control and approval?
I don't think he is "gonna leave it wide-open". Mediawiki is very flexible in this regard. And it's fairly easy to modify the source to make some additional changes if you want a particular editorial control.
QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Tue 30th June 2009, 9:51pm)
That would be far better than letting a gang of nutcase admins ban whole IP
address ranges, or be forced to use crude scripts like Huggle to trash/untrash
articles wholesale.......
No argument with you there. Wikipedia is a horrible application of Mediawiki. But the particular question I was responding to wasn't referring to Wikipedia.