#6451 LOW Opportu: Inefficiencies in current wiki communication strategies.

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#6451: Inefficiencies in current wiki communication strategies.
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 Reporter:  mstone          |       Owner:  hhardy     
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new        
 Priority:  low             |   Milestone:  Opportunity
Component:  infrastructure  |     Version:             
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 The current distribution of content into separate wikis, the lack of
 visibility of who can see, read, and modify each page, the lack of a
 comprehensive index of all OLPC-related wiki content, and prior
 limitations of MediaWiki seem to me to lead to frustrating communication
 inefficiencies.

 In particular, it's hard to make accurate predictions about whether or not
 user Jane has read page version X - or even knows that it exists. It's
 also hard to get meaningful traffic statistics.

 As a minor side note to the main discussion, included mainly for the
 record:

 One of the reasons why these limitations appear so difficult to overcome
 is that MediaWiki has eschewed access control systems powerful enough to
 express even approximately correct policies and delegation patterns at
 reasonable cost. A more humanly scalable scheme seems to be called for.
 Might a system like the one described in
 [http://okmij.org/ftp/papers/Soutei.pdf Soutei, A Logic-Based Trust-
 Management System] be suitable?

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