[open-science] Why do you use MediaWiki?

[Ivan Ferrero]

Sure you can have more details about my project! :-)

I'm planning a project about Cyberbullying, and I'm undecided:

1) create a collaborative platform where people are able to share their
anti-Cyberbullying projects.
A "fork" feature would be great.

2) create a collaborative Wiki focused on Cyberbullying (or a broader
topic, i.e. Psyche and New Technologies) in order to connect various
sub-topics and findings.
In my experience I see many researches may be connected each others, but
they are presented in different locations and one is not aware of the other
ones.

I still don't have a team: it's all in my mind.

My goal is to gather all the knowledge in a single place and make it public.

Any suggestion is always appreciated: maybe I find it doesn't worth the
effort. :-)

PS: I'm already on the run with www.bullismoonline.it in Italian language.
It's the usual big Wordpress website: it makes a sense in Italy (we lack
something like that), but there are many English good websites, but again
they don't dialogue each others.





2015-01-21 8:04 GMT+01:00 Daniel Lombraña González <teleyinex at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I guess I'm going to be the only one against MediaWiki :-) The issue is
> that unless you disable almost "everything" your site will have tons of
> spam (be ready to sell Xanax ;-)). There is a long page in Mediawiki about
> this issue: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam
>
> Disabling editing to anyone (or going through loops to do an edit and
> publish it) defeats the purpose of a Wiki, as the whole idea is that anyone
> can edit it quickly (even without an account). At the end you will end up
> installing a few extensions to validate account creations, disable editing
> for anonymous, etc. If you are fine with it, then go for it :-) Otherwise,
> look for other solutions (my last solution is to use a Github Pages with
> Jekyll, the only issue with this solution is people need to know how to use
> tools like Git).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Tue Jan 20 2015 at 21:18:39 Andrés Delgado <andres at delgado.ec> wrote:
>
>> Ivan,
>>
>> Mediawiki is great when (1) you learn how to admin it first and (2)
>> there is a bunch of users on your site. If you think some project will
>> scale just because it is in a wiki, you are probably wrong. I have
>> managed 2 project (one collaborative research for public policy and one
>> law proposal) on mediawiki and I am not sure it was the best decision.
>> Spam is a big problem and it could even create problems with your
>> provider if it gets too big.
>>
>> Can we have some details on what you are planning?
>>
>> On 20/01/15 07:56, Ivan Ferrero wrote:
>> > Hi all!
>> >
>> > I'm planning a collaborative open website and I'm confused about which
>> > platform to use.
>> >
>> > I think a Wiki would be the best option.
>> >
>> > I always hear about the MediaWiki platform: why?
>> >
>> > There are many other Wiki platforms with more features and more
>> > friendly, i.e.: TikiWiki.
>> >
>> > AFAK MediaWiki is very little mobile friendly, no Social Networks
>> > connections, and very little aesthetics.
>> >
>> > At the opposite softwares like TikiWiki (just to name the one
>> > I analyzed the most: no ads here!) come with features like blog,
>> > forum, points and stars to reward the members, etc...
>> >
>> > So why I always read about MediaWiki?
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > Ivan
>> >
>> >
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>> Atentamente,
>>
>> Andrés Delgado
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