Help Desk Exchange regarding Plone

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April 20 AW

At https://plone4.fnal.gov/P1/Main/FAQ/ there is a link inviting me to create a new FAQ. I tried that and it said that I had insufficient privilege.

My question was: I see "wikis" listed on the Plone site. In the context of Plone, what's a "wiki"?

April 20Help Desk

Solution: We can confirm that FAQ requires manager access to add question. Plone managers are are looking into making these screens less misleading.

Your question: Definition of wiki in plone is same as general definition of wiki: "website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content".

April 21AW

The document at http://uscms-docdb.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/ShowDocument?docid=718 is a presentation regarding Plone that was presented at several conferences. On slide 20 it says:

Customers are required to provide at least one (1) manager for their folder or site. The manager(s) is/are responsible for:

Learning about Plone
Configuring the Plone site/folder to customer specifications
Maintaining plug-ins that they have requested

In my exploring Plone for possible use for the NOvA Project/Experiment I didn't see any other place (e.g. via a search from the Fermilab CD home page) where such statements were made. I found no general statements about setting up something new. Did I miss something?

On Google groups I found the group "plone:general". That is a mirror for the mailing list "plone-users@lists.sourceforge.net". There I found postings that said that "Wicked" will be in the Plone 3.0 core. Wicked provides "wiki" functionality. I then went to https://plone4.fnal.gov/P1/Main/ and tried to find out what version/level of Plone is being used. I couldn't find anything that told me version/level.

If it is Plone 3, that would probably explain for me how it is that the content list offers a "Wiki Page". I played with adding one on my home page, but then couldn't figure out what more to do with it. If I knew it was from "Wicked" I could go look up that documentation.

April 23HD: Kevin Note To Requester: Zwiki is a more or less full featured wiki package for plone. I assume wicked will be something similar, but right now we offer zwiki for wiki use.
April 23 Help Desk

Solution: Plone version is 2.1 and 2.5.
Wiki is coming from user's Wiki.
A resource to consider: plone-users mailing list.