[Building Sakai] request for comments on specific rwiki modifications

[David Haines]

To separate the original intended discussion from what has turned into  
the Rwiki editor discussion, I'm resubmitting this post with a new  
subject line.

- Dave

David Haines
CTools Developer
Digital Media Commons
University of Michigan
dlhaines at umich.edu




On Jul 14, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Prakash, Savitha 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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