[Air-L] wiki tool suggestions?

Cargill-Kipar, Nicole N.Kipar at hw.ac.uk
Fri Sep 7 05:50:32 PDT 2007


If you have no other option, then this is the best option. Simple.

Nicole 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of elw at stderr.org
Sent: 07 September 2007 13:49
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] wiki tool suggestions?


> I, too, keep coming back to PB Wiki, and so do several people in the 
> institution.


Some critical-engagement-with-technology problems with pbwiki:

1) You're relying entirely on an outside entity to keep the thing
running-
    servers up, data intact, reasonably secured against outsiders.  You
    have zero control over any of this, even if you want or suddenly
need
    it.

2) What do those "backups" look like, from a data POV?  Can you import
    them into something else usefully?  Without assistance or
    reverse-engineering?  Or are they locked in with the single-source
    pbwiki vendor?

2b) "hey man, where's my source code?"

3) FERPA, privacy, and security.  Are you really comfortable with moving
    your student activities offsite?  Would your campus counsel be
    comfortable with that move?  [I just finished reading the "security"
    documentation pbwiki provides "for IT folks"; I classify it as
    "whitewashing" rather than "whitepaper", and am not at all
comfortable
    with the tone of what's presented therein.]


The notion of moving academic activity off-campus and into the hands of
a commercial entity... well, to be frank, it makes my skin crawl.  There
are *so many* serious problems that could spring up - it is truly
frightening.

--elijah


> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of catherine 
> middleton
> Sent: 06 September 2007 21:36
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] wiki tool suggestions?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for suggestions for wiki software to use with a class. I 
> don't want to have to install anything, and am of course looking for 
> something simple to set up and use. When this question was asked some 
> time ago, the following sites were suggested:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org
> http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/
> http://moodle.org/
> http://pbwiki.com/
> http://www.seedwiki.com
> http://www.pmwiki.org/
>
> What would you recommend now?
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