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Have you heard of TWiki? Foswiki is a fork of TWiki. As I understand it, the forking was in response to a dispute among TWiki developers over licensing issues. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote: > On 1/31/2014 5:20 PM, David Kramer wrote: > >> >> On 01/31/2014 01:56 PM, Jeffrey Young wrote: >> >>> I want to implement a Media Wiki at work, but my boss is worried about >>> security risks. To me it seems simple, if it's not exposed to the world, >>> what's the problem? Am I missing something? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jeff >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss at blu.org >>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >> if "it's not exposed to the world" is known to be a true statement, then >> what is he concerned about? >> >> I will say that MediaWiki *is* very hard to lock down if that statement >> is not known to be true. Most wikis fall into one of two camps: >> "Information wants to be free and that's what wikis are for so why would >> you want to lock it down?" and "Today's internet is a scary place and >> even wikis need access control". There's not much in the middle. >> >> I LOVE Foswiki for many reasons, but very high on the list is that it >> has full user/group authorizations at the system level, the wiki level, >> and at the page level. >> > > +1 > > Mediawiki's documentation specifically warns against trying to implement > access controls. The software is used at Wikipedia, and so is geared toward > an "everybody can write" model, albeit with retroactive oversight. > > I'm not familiar with Foswiki, but your point is well taken: the idea of a > wiki is that many hands make short work, and trying to limit access is a > contradiction in terms. > > Bill > > -- > Bill Horne > William Warren Consulting > http://www.william-warren.com/ > 339-364-8487 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: abreauj at gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6
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