I'm against anything where you have to have a separate authentication mechanism. We can install any wiki on this server we want. That's not a problem. The issue is having it be an organic outgrowth of this system. Something externally hosted never can be.

Even if anyone was going to volunteer to send invites out to every single registered Buffista, who's going to stay on top of that?

Oh, that's fine. I wasn't saying it was a better option, ita. I don't have a clue what b.org is capable of internally, so I was just throwing it out there. It's great if we can build it into our own space.

A wiki definitely sounds like the best thing to me, in terms of organizing things. But I can see the authentication issue.

Even if anyone was going to volunteer to send invites out to every single registered Buffista, who's going to stay on top of that?

Could we post a notice somewhere like Press, saying if you want an invite, do this, and they do it and get an invite by some automated system? So that a human doesn't have to monitor and send invites manually? I know nothing about this, as is probably obvious; I just really like automating processes.

I actually take back what I said about no one using it if it wasn't a thread-- I really meant I didn't think anyone would use it if it was off-site. An on-site wiki would be perfect, but I think that any solution that does not call for a lot of work on the side of the developers is good (like the thread solution as envisioned by Strega).

if you want an invite, do this, and they do it and get an invite by some automated system? So that a human doesn't have to monitor and send invites manually?

What's to stop someone from doing that and signing up as Zenkitty and doing all sorts of stuff under your name?

That's a big reason to have them the same. Transparency of identity.

I haven't taken an in depth look yet, but TWiki *might* be flexible enough to allow single authentication: [link]

What's to stop someone from doing that and signing up as Zenkitty and doing all sorts of stuff under your name?

No, I know that's bad, but - We can't do the signing-up inside the board, where we're signed in with passwords? I think I don't understand the problem enough to even frame the question correctly. Never mind.

That's interesting Jon. I'll have to take a look at that in more detail.

No, zenkitty, you`re exactly right. What we want is to do it within the board with our b.org logins. The problem is that most wiki software (we`re talking about buying or using someone else`s code and putting it on our box, not hand coding like ita did for the board itself.) comes with its own signups and logins and stuff. What we`re looking for is a solution that will let us tie our logins into their code. Then at that point we can sign into the board and also have access to the wiki, and can create content and edit it and everything.