I've been thinking about this too recently.<div>Please see</div><div><a href="http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Audiences-Talk">http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Audiences-Talk</a></div><div>and (vote for)</div><div><a href="http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00421">http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00421</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Simon</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/16 Tegan Dowling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tmdowling@gmail.com">tmdowling@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:32 AM, kjettil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kjettil@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank">kjettil@wanadoo.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>David Spitzley wrote:<br>
> Ideally I want to allow separate logins per business or other organization, with separate pages for each, each of them individually stylable. I'm half considering rolling my own, but I'd like hear any suggestions others may have of either specific configurations of pmwiki (I've done about 6 installs for different purposes, but nothing too different from a standard wiki), or of other software which would support such a project effectively.<br>
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</div></div><Snip> All sites work like charm, except ...<div class="im"><br>
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... except for sites with "novice" users, where PmWiki's lack of<br>
WYSIWYG editing is an effective barrier to user participation. Most<br>
people simply don't want to take the time to learn wiki "coding". And if<br>
they try, they often get things wrong, end up with an ugly looking page<br>
and never try again. In one case, a club site where club members were<br>
supposed to contribute text and images, we had to scrap the PmWiki site<br>
entirely and instead use WordPress. That reduced the number of degrees<br>
of freedom in web design but solved the problem with user participation.</div></blockquote></div><br>That's my experience, too -- unless I have a good relationship with a very capable representative of the users' group, and together we're prepared to watch the site like hawks and jump in helpfully the moment a user has trouble (*after* conducting group and one-on-one training sessions that communicate, above all, the availability of help when it's needed), you'll get users giving up in disgust.<br>
<br>Most of my wikis have very few users, and I work with them to get them comfortable with the wiki markup.<br><br>You might look at something like a "roll your own" social network -- e.g. <a href="http://ning.com" target="_blank">ning.com</a>.<br>
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