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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-08-14 16:25, Jonathan McDowell
wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 11:05:22AM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The way one can contribute to SPI's website is explained on
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.spi-inc.org/">http://www.spi-inc.org/</a> :
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<pre wrap="">This website is managed using ikiwiki+git. You can view the revision
history via gitweb <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://git.spi-inc.org/gitweb/?p=website.git"><http://git.spi-inc.org/gitweb/?p=website.git></a> and
send any updates, either as a git pull request or a patch, to
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:webmaster@spi-inc.org">webmaster@spi-inc.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:webmaster@spi-inc.org"><mailto:webmaster@spi-inc.org></a>.
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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.
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Contributions to the SPI website went up significantly by moving from
Plone to ikiwiki, and the website became much more current.</pre>
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Many thanks Jonathan; I had forgotten SPI previously used Plone. The
Wayback machine shows that we switched from Plone to Ikiwiki in Q4
2010, but a quick search on Google did not find an analysis of that
change, either anterior or posterior.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Empirical
evidence thus suggests we're much better off where we currently are.
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I don't remember ever contributing to a Plone website. I have no
idea why the switch was made and whether it was beneficial, but I
did not mean at all to suggest reverting it.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Based on experience managing a number of wikis I think the workload
involved in helping people who want to contribute at present but can't
deal with ikiwiki is significantly lower than dealing with an open (or
even approval based) wiki or CMS.</pre>
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I am not sure what you meant exactly by "deal", but recruitment of
contributors unable to *use* the current system is not the main
benefit I see. I was rather seeing a switch as a way to make
contributing more appealing.<br>
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As for the workload involved in dealing with wikis or CMS-s, were
you referring to content administration?<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="998">--
Filipus Klutiero
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.philippecloutier.com">http://www.philippecloutier.com</a></pre>
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