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<p>The way one can contribute to SPI's website is explained on <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.spi-inc.org/"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.spi-inc.org/">http://www.spi-inc.org/</a></a>
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<blockquote type="cite">This website is managed using ikiwiki+git.
You can view the revision history via <a
href="http://git.spi-inc.org/gitweb/?p=website.git">gitweb</a>
and send any updates, either as a git pull request or a patch, to
<a href="mailto:webmaster@spi-inc.org">webmaster@spi-inc.org</a>.</blockquote>
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Contributions would be much more appealing if there was a more
intuitive way to modify, in particular for casual contributors. The
web interface provided by a wiki or web content management system
would provide such an appeal. This is a wide request which does not
demand any particular wiki or CMS. Such a system could replace the
current website or supplement it, consisting only of new pages.<br>
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Wikis often use an engine-specific markup language to store page
contents. One wiki engine which does that and whose language already
benefits from an important diffusion among potential contributors is
MediaWiki. MediaWiki allows contributors to propose a new version of
a page which then needs to be approved before publication, but only
with the FlaggedRevs extension. MediaWiki is unfortunately not in
Debian testing currently. Drupal is another option, which is in
Debian testing.<br>
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This does not request any specific authorizations. Pages could use
the soft security of open wikis, be only editable by SPI members,
require approval by a team, or a mix of all of these policies
depending on the topic.<br>
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Filipus Klutiero
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.philippecloutier.com">http://www.philippecloutier.com</a></pre>
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