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WordPress [and the jiscPUB project] | ptsefton — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:21:53 +0000

[…] rich environment for editing, and particularly not for collaborative editing. Most people get tired of the wordpress authoring tool very quickly, as it’s just not suited for serious […]

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By: Ontogenesis: One Year On | Ontogenesis

Ontogenesis: One Year On | Ontogenesis — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:41:21 +0000

[…] first and we think the most important reason relates to an issue identified early by Sean Bechhofer: are we a blog or a wiki? In this web-based environment, authors are more used to a collaborative […]

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Considering the Process | Ontogenesis — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:24:10 +0000

[…] this post, I want to address some of the issues raised by Sean Bechoffer in his thoughtful reflection. One of my aims with thinking about the […]

By: phillord

phillord — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:39:41 +0000

I think that the versioning issue is soluable — all the versions are available, it’s just a question of doing stuff to wordpress and with some permalink fiddling.

But I agree, blogs neither have the versioning nor the collaborative environment of a wiki. Still, there again, I think you have the same issue with a wiki. If you write a page, and I link to it, there is no guarentee that your page will remain the same as it was.

I will work on a improved process and improved software over the next couple of months. I think it was fairly close, myself. If you disagree, it’s probably just you being one of those incredible picky computer scientists…

By: seanbechhofer

seanbechhofer — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:11:08 +0000

Ahem. Allyson Lister kindly pointed out that I should have written “why aren’t we doing this through a *wiki*”? in the middle. I’ve changed this, and this then nicely leads us down the rabbit hole of versioning, edits and what the comments actually refer to……

By: Duncan Hull

Duncan Hull — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:18:29 +0000

Hi Sean, I’d especially agree to the WordPress UI being a nightmare. It doesn’t support collaborative authoring very well and screws with the markup by second guessing what you really mean all the time. I notice some people were using Google Docs to collaboratively compose articles before hand, then cut and paste the text in. These seems to work reasonably well for David Shottons article. Since there are reasonable APIs for wordpress, one solution might be to hook up wikis / google docs to wordpress via the API, this might give the best of both worlds, collaborative authoring and blogging together.