[Committee] Live Version of Website

[S.J. Stretton]

Hello everyone,
The website is now complete and live. A shorter address: http://zcarb.org.uk
(zcarb.net also ok). Any more comments are appreciated before we advertise
more widely.

There's an EEC on Wednesday at 7pm. It would be good if someone could go
along - CUSU Green can link us in to a national campaign after the exams for
more stringent targets! We can do it!!!

On the Wiki front, I think it is worth having a tool with the functionality
of mediawiki.
It looks like it's possible in the future to integrate wordpress and
mediawiki, both in terms of appearance, content and logins. But it's not
easy and we should wait until we have more IT resource before doing this. In
the meantime, lets use both - first priority to clean up the wiki and add
user friendly information. Please dig in and have a go, don't be afraid to
delete or mover stuff - its a collaborative effort! Priority is to put
together something on the Climate Bill Consultation
http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/climatechange-bill/

As a first step, I suggest everyone registers on our website
http://www.zerocarbonnow.org/wordpress/wp-login.php?action=register and wiki
http://www.zerocarbonnow.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup&returnto=Main_Page.
It may be better to use the same user_id and password to prevent confusion.

Any meeting this week?

All the best,
Steve

On 4/29/07, S.J. Stretton <sjstretton at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>  Any thoughts? Anyone know IT experts?
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> As part of our consultation for the new Cliamte Bill, we might need a
> wiki www.zcarb.net/wiki to conduct our discussions. We will need this
> to be as user friendly as possible. Our main website will be based in
> Wordpress new.zcarb.net , and so the question arises how to integrate
> the wiki into a common register/login system.
>
> It's difficult (but not impossible) to acheive the full 'wiki' effect
> in wordpress. People can jointly edit a document in wordpress if they
> are all editors, but there isn't the full trackback capability as seen
> in mediawiki.
>
> We have the following options if we are to retain wiki functionality:
>
> A) Find a way to create a wiki experience within WordPress
>
> B) Find a way o integrating loging in to the wordpress site, with
> simultaneously logging in to our wiki? Both require an id and
> password, so presumably there might be a way. But I've no idea how
> these things work.
>
> C) Ask people to register and login seperately
>
> D) Abandon Wiki despite its better wiki functionality vis-a-vis wordpress.
>
> Anyone know any IT experts? Otherwise C would be the easiest option
> despite everyone havign to login twice.
>
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