[OpenSpending] Reviving the wiki (or something like it)

Sun Mar 8 17:03:52 UTC 2015

Great, sounds like we have a plan to move forward.

Even better we already have most of this as a jekyll / github pages site at:

https://github.com/openspending/dotorg

I've also booted an issue to track this work:

https://github.com/openspending/dotorg/issues/28

rufus

On 8 March 2015 at 12:48, Paul Walsh <paulywalsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that something backed by github pages would be the best option.
>
> It is fairly non-tech user friendly, and as you say, no real risk of spam.
> I haven’t seen prose.io before: looks good!
>
> I personally don’t like mediawiki too much, and there are serious spam
> issues.
>
>
>
> On 27 Feb 2015, at 20:17, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> Due to spam issues and the like we archived the original
> wiki.openspending.org a while back.
>
> For a while we had a github pages based site for our research, content and
> blog. As it was felt this was a bit tricky for (non-tech) contributors to
> use we migrated off this to Wordpress about 1.5y ago.
>
> However, Wordpress is more of a classic CMS and whilst good for the blog
> or controlled pages it obviously provides a rather significant barrier to
> entry for community contribution.
>
> I was therefore wondering what people thought about reviving the wiki or
> something like it and using it to power http://community.openspending.org.
> The two most obvious options are:
>
> - Reboot the wiki using mediawiki
>   - Pros: standard software, pretty easy for non-tech folks to use and
> contribute to
>   - Cons: tends to get badly spammed, another thing to maintain
>
> - Go back to github pages powered site. This is wiki-like in that github
> pages workflow now makes it fairly easy to contribute
>   - Pros: very easy to setup and not much to maintain, nice moderation
> workflow and no real risk of spam
>   - Cons: somewhat tech-y to contribute to (though we may be able to
> address that with e.g. prose.io etc)
>
> Love to hear people's thoughts and suggestions.
>
> Rufus
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