On Friday, 17 December 2004, at 11:02:02 (-0800), Troy Engel wrote:

Is there a reason that anonymous browsing of the FAQ and/or Wiki areas are denied? ("You dont have permission to use this feature")

I just forgot to fix the Anonymous permissions. Should be fine now. :)

Thanks, Michael

Troy Engel wrote:

Excellent, thanks. I notice it's empty, so I created an account to start adding a FAQ (the most popular "yum complains about a PGP key, how do I install it") -- what's your process for additions/FAQs to the Wiki?

thx, -te

Here is the write up for CentOS. http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=17

BTW, I guess this can also serve to announce the launch of the www.centos.org website

.dn http://www.centos.org

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BTW, I guess this can also serve to announce the launch of the www.centos.org website

Killer! So it would appear that our CentOS Q&A, FAQ, Wiki, etc should all go here instead of wiki.caosity.org, eh?

www.centos.org will not feature a pure wiki. However the FAQ system running on www.centos.org is rather kind of like a wiki in that it allows users to propose questions, answer previously proposed questions, answer (i.e., update) a current answer, propose and answer a question (the same parts obviously) at one time. So it's better than a boring old static faq with a webmaster making up questions, it allows user interaction, but avoids many of the pitfalls of more traditional wiki like apps. It's flexible enough to be a "mini wiki" in the sense that users can submit complete howto's, offer suggestions for correcting inaccurate faq information, or even proposing a question that should be added. It's a faq in the sense that the answers are generally static and still require webmaster (or assignee(s)) to manage the content and changes in the faq. All this and I didn't even mention that users can add comments to existing FAQ entries... :-)

The faq is called "smartfaq" and is rather unique to the xoops word. Currently it is running in rather restricted mode. In the coming days and weeks I plan to add more smartfaq features to make it more dynamic.

Congrats on the lauch, looks spiffy.

Thank you, much of the look goes to Lance Davis who was forever saying can we "change this, change that, blah blah blah". Plus I seem to suffer from coloritus as well...