[D-community-discuss] choosing the right CMS

[Stephen]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:25:29PM +0100 or thereabouts, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> most things stripped, as they were already solved or commented on.
> 
> On Monday 05 March 2007 18:43, Chris Lale wrote:
> > The main problem with any
> > wiki is not so much security as _spam_.
> 
> Right. I expect we will need to fight that :) 

Hi jumping in here. Holger and I had discussed this off list over the
past few weeks, before I was invited to participate here.

Actually this is the greatest weakness of Wikis. While the idea is good,
I don't think Wikis are the way to present information for the kind of
content we're expecting to do.

Am I wrong about this website being more for FAQs on how to do something
technical on Debian, for newbies ?

Why then wouldn't we consider a framework that already been invented,
expressly for this purpose ?

I'm thinking of PHPMyFAQ;

	Project description:
	
	phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ
	system. It support various database systems and it also offers a
	content management system with a WYSIWYG editor, an image
	manager, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user
	tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support,
	PDF support, DocBook XML support, a backup system, and an easy
	to use installation script.

The fact that is does many languages out of the box is a prime criteria
and also the fact that it quite easy to output to other formats <ie>
Docbook, PDF etc.

I really don't think one should want *anyone* to be able to add content
to this project -- This will enable the spammers, and the volunteers
will spend most of their time clearing spam then in writing content for
newbies. Kind of defeats the whole purpose, no ?

Anyway more on PHPMyFAQ can be found here (It's a relatively mature
project, having been around for 3 years and it's actively updated);
<http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmyfaq/>

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