2006-10-03

Vapour: Thanks for responses. You say, “a text published in a wiki is basically open for everybody to look at.” Is there any way to alter the access right of each wikipages? My primarly aim is to utilise the format of wikipedia (or any online encyclopedia) rather than to utilise wiki per se. My study topic is quite specialised. If there would ever be a collaboration, only a handfull of people would be involved. Initially, all of my wiki pages will be my idea scrapbook pages. Therefore, I want only me to be able to read and edit these pages. Out of these scrapbook wikipages, I might eventually write more formal draft wikipages or even some collaborative draft wikipages, in which people with right passwords can read and edit (for example, to correct my English :-)). Does this site cater for people who want to utilise wiki for more private use? I don’t mind if my wikipage show ads if that pays for bandwidth.

AlexSchroeder: You’ll have to find somebody else to host the wiki for you, unfortunately.

MattisManzel: Vapour, you find links to kinda all working free wiki-hosting sites on the hive-wiki: wiki-node - but I fear they are all all open - which is definetely not a problem, think about it. Two years ago on the flashmob-wiki it occured that we were thinking about a partly closed section on a wiki - non public. MoinMoin?, I know, has such a feature but we never got into it any deeper, actually. It’s simply not the idea behind wiki to restrict read and write access.