[ale] dokuwiki and comments

[John Heim]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Pitts" <brian at polibyte.com>
To: <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>; <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] dokuwiki and comments


> Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> I've been playing with dokuwiki over the weekend.  I want to be the only
>> person capable of creating and editing pages.  So far that works good.
>> I also want to be able to allow people to comment on pages and those
>> comments to be shown.
>>
>> Here is an example article
>>
>> http://support.opsdc.com/~cfowler/ki4ymd/doku.php?id=tennis_ball_launcher_wire_antenna_launcher
>>
>>
>> Is there a plugin to do what I want or do I need to embed PHP code
>> directly in the article?
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Have you tried http://wiki.splitbrain.org/plugin:discussion ?
>
> "The Discussion Plugin adds a discussion section after your wiki page
> for user comments. This is useful to separate page content and the
> discussion thereof and also, if you don't want to give normal users the
> right to edit the page but still want user contributed notes."
>
> This can create a spam problem, so you may want to look into
> http://wiki.splitbrain.org/plugin:captcha ,
> http://wiki.splitbrain.org/plugin:akismet , and
> http://wiki.splitbrain.org/plugin:badbehaviour
>
> My personal solution was to disable account creation and anonymous
> comments. If someone wants to comment, they need to use an OpenID. The
> spambots don't seem to be trying this yet.


Note that using captcha   will make your web site inaccessible to the 
visually impaired  and is therefore a violation of Federal 508 regulations 
covering accessibility of  government web sites and may or may not be a 
violation of the ADA (that's still in the courts).