[seul-edu] Re: Group memory Wiki

[Bruno Vernier <vernier@vc.bc.ca>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:10:37PM +0000, Doug Loss wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, "Bob Techentin" wrote:

> > > If anyone has a better idea on how to accomplish something like
> > > this, we're certainly eager to hear it.

> > Have you considered setting up a Wiki?  A Wiki is a collection of

> What's involved in setting one up?  Is there any easy way we can seed it with
> the info from our email archives?  I really want to get that stuff more easily
> accessable.  Are Wiki's open to anyone to edit, or can they be constrained by the
> membership of a mailing list?  I'll have to take a look at the URL you give.

wiki is available in several flavours.  I have just started experimenting with
the zope wiki module with my students.  Since zope does transactions, I can
theoretically recover from "accidental" erasures.  Within wiki, we can
include html such as links to the relevant mailing list archives.  While I
am still new to the concept, I really like the values that by it's nature it
promotes:

trust, and cooperative construction.

Bruno