[Moin-devel] Page Permissions

[Magnus Lycka]

At 19:30 2003-01-29 -0800, Nick Trout wrote:
>It would be nice to be able to set different levels of access e.g.
>Administrator can add new users and edit anything.
>Manager can read, edit and create pages.
>Editor can read and edit pages but can't create.
>Reader can only read pages.

Aren't you beginning to make MoinMoin into a Content Management
System? It is after all a Wiki System. Perhaps you should use Plone
or something like that instead? ( www.plone.org )

Somehow, for the kind of users you seem to have in mind, I feel that
Wiki isn't the right thing. But of course, you know that better than I
do.

Used right, noone will loose editing in a wiki. If someone else beat
you to it, you will have to do some manual work, but you have your
edited content, you just have to merge it, and there are tools that
will indicate exactly what the other guy modified, so you should be
able to do these things. If this happens often, the page should be
refactored into several smaller pages. This is not for everybody...

To quote http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWikiWorks

"Wiki is not WysiWyg. It's an intelligence test of sorts to be able
to edit a wiki page. It's not rocket science, but it doesn't appeal
to the VideoAddicts. If it doesn't appeal, then don't participate,
which leaves those of us who read and write to get on with rational
discourse."


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