<div dir="ltr"><div>So create a Wordpress blog on <a href="http://wordpress.com">wordpress.com</a>, use their database, get a creative pre-built skin, and give people who request it editorial priveleges. It's easy. It works.</div>
<div>Or set up mysql on the Lugod server and add the wordpress blogging software locally. Surely there is a mysql guru on this list.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Nick Schmalenberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick@schmalenberger.us">nick@schmalenberger.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 10:03:58AM -0700, Scott Miller wrote:<br>> MediaWiki would be cool as an add on, and would be painless to set up.<br>
> Or as Alex mentions it is possible to only have a CMS for a few pages<br>> and make it appear seemless to the existing site. UC Davis does this,<br>> as some <a href="http://ucdavis.edu/" target="_blank">ucdavis.edu</a> pages are Plone and others hand coded but you<br>
> cannot tell them apart(!)<br>><br>> scott<br>><br>><br>If I'm not mistaken, mediawiki and many CMSs require a database<br>which our server doesn't necessarily have, and if it does would<br>probably require some setup (create the database and database<br>
user...) that we probably can't do. So I wouldn't say this is<br>painless. I think Bill has already made some parts of updating<br>the site automatic so maybe he could just write up how it works<br>and certain other people would have ssh access as mentioned?<br>
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