Wiki for IDI site

[Cheetham, Anastasia]

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> From: "Gill, Avtar" <agill at ocadu.ca>
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>> One question (otherwise this looks like a great plan): are we able to assign roles to groups and individuals wrt editing and posting in MediaWiki? I imagine the answer is of course.
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> Yes, here is a list of rights that a user/group can be assigned: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights#List_of_permissions
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> I would also like to bring up the spam issue.  I've had to configure the FLOE Handbook, GPII, and MDID MediaWiki instances to only let user accounts be created after a moderator has approved requests.  That so far has been the most effective way of preventing these wikis from being inundated by spam.  Would this approach be acceptable for this new wiki?

I believe this approach would be reasonable for this wiki. Unless anyone has objections, I'd like to move forward with this. Jutta has requested that some form of wiki be set up, with the notes from the Forum, by Oct. 1.


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> On 2012-09-19, at 3:58 PM, Jess Mitchell wrote:
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>> One question (otherwise this looks like a great plan): are we able to assign roles to groups and individuals wrt editing and posting in MediaWiki? I imagine the answer is of course. What I'm thinking about here is a use case where IDI partner institutions might want to do things differently.
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>> Jess
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>> On Sep 19, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Cheetham, Anastasia wrote:
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>>> Jess, James and Avtar,
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>>> As a follow-up to yesterday's public forum (http://inclusivedesign.ca/public-forum-design-of-public-spaces-in-the-built-environment/), Jutta has asked that we set up a wiki space that can be used to post the notes from the forum and invite attendees to edit, discuss, etc. She would like this wiki linked to from the IDI site (and from the IDRC site).
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>>> We have wanted to create an official IDI wiki space, so it makes sense to do this now. I'm going to start by suggesting that we use MediaWiki (though I'm certainly open to arguments for other options): MediaWiki is open source; we have experience with it from the Handbook; it now comes out-of-the-box with a pseudo-wysiwyg editor that – while not actually wysiwyg – will make it easier for non-techy folks to edit pages.
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>>> I would suggest that we proceed by getting an instance up with the basic look-and-feel (with minor adjustments to the logo, tag lines, etc.) so that we can follow-up on the forum with reasonable promptness, and then as we have time, work on a more 'proper' IDI theme that will mesh better with the look and feel of the site. We can set up a dev version alongside the public version and work on it in github, as we did for the IDI site.

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Anastasia Cheetham     Inclusive Design Research Centre
acheetham at ocadu.ca           Inclusive Design Institute
                                        OCAD University

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