[Building Sakai] Rwiki

[Charlie Macchia]

Hi Savitha,

I'd like to be more helpful with this request, but it's a little difficult,
because I haven't had much of a chance to put the rwiki into action - its
user interface is a bit much for the novice. I've managed to get it used on
a site for programmers, but that never quite took off, so it's hard for me
to recommend too much.

That said, I'll try:

1. site admin ("Maintain" ) should be able to delete, and I like the idea of
being able to delegate the responsibility to a wiki-master.

2. I like the idea of the comments being deleted with the wiki, it's
cleaner, if somebody wants to create a separate wiki page out of the
comments for posterity ( or CYA ) perhaps that should be an option, but
otherwise, they're gone too. Principle Of Least Surprise works well here.

3. I like comments on/off to be site wide by default, that's the way most
folks will likely think of it. (POLS again)

Hope this helps Savitha,

Charlie



On 7/14/09 1:55 PM, "Prakash, Savitha" <savithap at umich.edu> wrote:

> I am venturing to add few new features to rwiki (2.7). I wanted to get a sense
> of what community at large wants. Following lists the wiki features and
> possible approaches. Any comments, suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> 1. Option to delete wiki page (SAK-2963)
> 
> I was able to implement an option "delete page" by deleting the page records
> from the rwikiobject table. This would delete the page, they will not be
> listed in index, and there will be no way to get the history of this page.
> What kind of permission should be imposed for this feature? I was thinking of
> giving access to "delete page" for those with rwiki.admin or rwiki.superadmin.
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 2. Hide option for comments (SAK-11910)
> 
> A comment can be completely deleted by using the delete option, as mentioned
> in [1], as each comment is considered as a page in rwiki. However this would
> completely remove the record with no history of any previous comments, which
> might not be desirable to some.
> So, we should probably have a hide option, with an additional column in
> rwikiobject table, which records the status of hide. Thoughts?
> 
> 3. Be able to control Comments in RWiki on a site by site level (SAK-8391)
> 
> Currently we have a property wiki.comments, to include/exclude comments in
> wiki, however this will be applicable system wide.
> 
> In order to have a site wide permission, we need to add a new permission say
> rwiki.comments. This would include changes in templates in kernel and osp. How
> important is this feature to make so many changes in different places?
> 
> Alternatively, it will be relatively simple implementation to have a page-wise
> permission for comments. By default we can switch it on and it can be changed
> by visiting INFO. Thoughts? Concerns?
> 
> Thanks,
> Savitha
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