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[Richard Lyons <richard AT the-place.net>]

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 06:40:00AM -0600, Larry Ivan Brower wrote:

> I like the idea with an addition. All edits not done by someone in a 
> working group of some sort should be moderated.
> 
> 
> Caleb Langeslag <takyoji AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >I've had a thought recently: Why don't we just have the whole OpenNIC
> >website as a wiki rather than a Joomla installation with a Wikka Wakka
> >installation as a subsidiary? Having the main website under Joomla is only
> >restricting people from being able to contribute and/or fix any content. As
> >for any high-profile or mission-critical pages, we could just have those
> >pages require moderator-approval for changes to become public. I don't see
> >what a wiki installation would be incapable of, as of how the Joomla
> >installation is currently used.
> >
> >We could also work towards making a very nice wiki theme that's well done
> >that isn't just a recolorization of a default theme (whereas you can look
> >at wiki.ubuntu.com and not tell what wiki solution it is, due to it's
> >extensive branding and theming). Overall, this would also make the OpenNIC
> >website more uniformal. I'm completely willing to do any of the web design
> >and templating work necessary for a custom theme (as long as someone has a
> >decent design idea/draft).

That's a good idea.  I've used dokuwiki a lot -- even just as a cms it works
well.  Very customizable and themable and custom tags are easy to produce
when needed.  Can be a closed or as open as wanted, page by page.

richard