Ask HN: Content management using wikipedia style editing?

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by digitalquacks • 13 years ago

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Hello hackers, I am working on an idea to create large text content on specific subjects. I plan to recruit 20 or so domain experts. Can I set up a backend that looks like wikipedia for these guys to create/edit these articles/content? I hope my question was clear.

ctb9• 13 years ago

Please comment or downvote if I shouldn't even feed the trolls or the inept international HN hucksters.

The term you are looking for is a "CMS". Good luck.

digitalquacks• 13 years ago

"international hucksters".. I don't understand. I know the term CMS. I have shortlisted Mediawiki. Can people who have used it give me some feedback. Specifically, since I only see about 20 editors, is this the right solutions?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_syst...

nekopa• 13 years ago

You will have to give us a little more information about what you want them to be able to do, and what you will do with the content afterwards.

Wikis are good if you want everyone to be able to edit everyone's content. Mediawiki doesn't have very good user access controls, but there are some wiki systems that give you more control over who can edit what. Also remember that wikis are for showing the edited articles directly on the web.

A CMS may be better if you want more features added to displaying your content after it has been created. Maybe you want to add discussion forums to your site, or membership options for site viewers. I've used joomla! quite a lot, but it could be overkill for what you're doing.

Also how web literate are your domain experts? If they're experts in, say, knitting you may be better off setting up a system where they create content just in word, and then you upload it to the site.

If you give us more details, maybe someone can help you out a bit more.

blubbi2• 13 years ago

I think docuwiki might be a good solution for you. It's easy to set up and quite flexible. https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki

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