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Tigjaw

Tigjaw

Tigjaw

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Hi guys,

I don't know if this is the right forum section but it didn't seem to fall under any other so here goes!

My friends and I are putting together a cartoon but we're struggling to meet more than twice a week. I suggested we use something like a wiki so we can each log in, view and edit our ideas whenever we want in between meetings.
However, we agreed the wiki/site should only allow us to view the material.

I'm struggling to meet this requirement however; most wikis are visible to everyone. I found one article that insisted that wetpaint wikis provided the facility to completely privatise a wiki but when I came to create my account the option wasn't available.

I was hoping for some suggestions from the OC'ers :)
Of course it doesn't need to be a wiki, we're open to other ideas.

Thanks in advance for any advice,
Regards,

Tig

EDIT: I have decent knowledge of HTML but little of PHP.
 
If you host the wiki on your own webspace you can easily password protect the folder (if you have cpanel it's a couple of clicks), so people need to type in a username/password before they can access anything under say www.example.com/wiki.

Shame it's meant to be shutting down in a few months but something like Google Wave (https://wave.google.com) sounds fairly good for this. Sharefolow looks like an ok alternative mind.
 
it is easy to install a wiki and password protect the public folder if you use webspace with cpanel.

An example set up just took me 10 minutes

http://marklamont.co.uk

Username: test
Password: p@ssw0rd
 
Hey chaps,
Thanks for the suggestions,

I did consider google docs but I thought the formality of it may stifle our stride a bit. The simplicity of the wiki-style was my first choice due to its top-down structure. I've watched a google-docs video and it looks a bit too much like bill gates' email account.

Pho said:
If you host the wiki on your own webspace you can easily password protect the folder (if you have cpanel it's a couple of clicks), so people need to type in a username/password before they can access anything under say www.example.com/wiki.
Click to expand...

By "my own webspace" do you mean - hosted on my computer? If so, my computer is not on all of the time which would pose a problem and I'd rather not leave it on permanently anyway. Besides don't you have to pay for cpanel (did I see $425?)? or am I thinking of a different cpanel?

I also considered a forum but I was hoping for something a little more formal but less formal than a DBMS/DCMS. Google Wave and ShareFlow sound great but again I think it will be a little stifling but I will download Shareflow and give it a spin.

The more I think and read the suggestions the more I'm thinking about how perfect a wiki would be.
The basic requirements are to have a hosted webspace to contain a collection (perhaps heirarchical from a main menu) of linked documents which several of us (and only us) can read and edit. Anything else is a bonus really.
 
I was thinking more that you would buy some hosting (i.e. Tsohost/Vidahost at around £15/year) which includes cpanel as part of the cost. However because I doubt 100% uptime of a site matters that much for this project you could use something like 000webhost which is free, and includes cpanel (not that you actually need cpanel to do this btw).

Both Google Wave and Shareflow work inside your browser; there's nothing to download per se and it's all "in the cloud".

Personally I'd go for the Wave/Shareflow idea because they're designed for collaborative working whereas with Wiki's you'll get bogged down in how to edit them etc.



I tend to use wave to chat to people whilst at work rather than for actual work :D.
 
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