SPUG:YAPC Wiki Site

[William Julien]

>
>But I shudder to think of a Wiki as the sole presence for SPUG on 
>the 'net.  How long would it take for some renegade band of Python fanatics
>to deface our site with beautifully indented Perlistic blasphemy, 
>and how many times a day would we have to scrape that kind of crap
>off the site? 

There were a lot of security concerns at work regarding the capability
of anyone editing any page. Fortunatly, the wiki I implemented has
two levels of security. The "admin" is god, and can edit and delete
any page. We have setup an "edit" password that enables those with
"the magic word" to edit any page. Assuming the python fanantics don't
subscribe to the list, the "authors" can be limited to the spuggers.

If you are really concerned about the python fanatics, consider the
wiki called "MoinMoin". It is written in (yuck) python.

William

>
>What's the Wiki track record in this area?  The lack of security, that
>enables the bulletin board metaphor to work, concerns me.
>
>-Tim
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