Scoop...Wants to meet a Wiki?

Just ran across this "bloatfree alternative" to the Slashdot software, had already started installing it, and noticed this entry on the Scoop home sites Wish List page:

Scoop on Scoop

"Scoop is a "collaborative media application". It falls somewhere between a content management system, a web bulletin board system, and a weblog. Scoop is designed to enable your website to become a community. It empowers your visitors to be the producers of the site, contributing news and discussion, and making sure that the signal remains high.

"A scoop site can be run almost entirely by the readers. The whole life-cycle of content is reader-driven. They submit news, they choose what to post, and they can discuss what they post. Readers can rate other readers comments, as well, providing a collaborative filtering tool to let the best contributions float to the top. Based on this rating, you can also reward consistently good contributors with greater power to review potentially untrusted content. The real power of Scoop is that it is almost totally collaborative."

Scoop Wishlist

A Proposal: Wikis for Scoop
By Eloquence, Section Wishlist
Posted on Mon Sep 24th, 2001 at 12:26:40 PM EST

The style of weblogs is very linear - it lends itself well to news, diaries and interesting findings on the web, but it is less suitable for long-term, goal-oriented discussion of a subject, or collaborative content creation. The integration of a wiki into the Scoop codebase would make it possible to use a Scoop site for both purposes. If you don't know what Wikis are, I recommend a look at Wikipedia, which is perhaps one of the most impressive wikis currently available, with over 11,000 articles. Read on for how wikis could be integrated into Scoop in several steps..."

License: GPL

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-- MikeMannix - 28 Sep 2001