Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ Peter.H.M.Brooks@xxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 11 September 2006 02:00 \__
>
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> >> __/ [ Peter.H.M.Brooks@xxxxxxxxx ] on Sunday 10 September 2006 20:42 \__
> >>
> >>
> >> Peter Brooks??? In COLA? What a surprise.
> >>
> > You might be thinking of one of my namesakes...
> >>
> >> I have extended PHPWiki to suit my own purposes, namely manage
> >> communication with family and friends. What do you have in mind? A paid
> >> project or a reference to an existing one?
> >>
> > At the moment, I'm looking at a reference to an existing one, that
> > might change at some stage in the future.
> >
> > I do like the relative ease of extensibility in wikis. What
> > communication method did you use for yours?
>
> I would probably recommend that you use MediaWiki (looking at my solution, in
> hindsight), but due to its size (complexity), it will be harder to hack and
> harder for others to learn and use. For my own needs, I did something along
> the following lines.
>
> http://www.schestowitz.com/Software/Correspondence_Wiki/
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/03/22/life-without-e-mail/
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/05/18/talk-using-wiki/
>
> This also combines a collection of family photos that encourage contribution
> and make the pages more pleasant to visit. The pages are password-protected
> and this provides an ultimate solution to SPAM.
>
> I had some other ideas at times, e.g.:
>
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/05/25/feeds-correspondence/
>
> Among other thoughts (one of them a couple of days old/fresh):
>
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/08/17/rise-of-wikis/
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/09/09/wikis-academia/
>
Perfect! Thank you...
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