[Trellis-developers] proposed website modification

[Henry Lim]

This sounds like a good idea.  I especially like the point about the 
public being able to add their own pages.

Henry

Shaddy Zeineddine wrote:
> Currently, we have a custom website that we put together and initially
> this was my preference over a CMS or a wiki because we could make it
> look any way we wanted. At that time I believe we had enough time to
> justify maintaining a website. Recently, however, I feel that we should
> reconsider.
> 
> The Trellis wiki is running on MoinMoin. It is a relatively popular wiki
> with software projects and for good reason. It is packed with great
> features while maintaining a clean interface. One notable site which
> uses it is http://live.gnome.org. Their wiki has a customized look which
> probably means we could customize the look of ours with relative ease.
> These are some of the benefits we will see from using this wiki for the
> website:
> 
> - it is easy to edit by anyone, anytime, anyplace
> - it includes a built in search
> - it has a familiar layout and will be easier to navigate
> - it will be seamless with our wiki, since it would be one and the same
> (also a more standardized look/feel)
> - the public will be able to add their own pages/add to ours, this will
> encourage participation
> - users can bookmark pages of the wiki so that it shows up as a tab
> - interwiki links are super easy to add as well as file attachments
> 
> in the end it will save us time, allow us to do more with the website,
> be friendlier with visitors and us, and provide easy versioning.
> 
> it has advanced spam controls so this would not be an issue
> 
> How do you feel about this?
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