[pmwiki-users] audiences revisited or revised ???

[Joachim Durchholz]

Henrik Bechmann wrote:

> FWIW,
> 
> The audiences I can see in this situation are:
> 
> reader
> author
> administrator
> developer

There are relevant subgroups for several. Let me define the groups:

Reader - anybody who reads a PmWiki page. These probably don't need any 
documentation (they wouldn't be there unless they already knew how to 
use a browser). One exception: they need to be told that the other roles 
exist. (On a closed-author-group wiki, even that information would be 
absent.)

Author: anybody who can edit pages (maybe just a subset of them). 
Authors need to know about the available markup. The need to be able to 
at least *find* the docs for all markup that they might encounter when 
editing somebody else's page. (Here's a proposal: Have a "what's this 
markup?" input field on the edit form. If the author copies&pastes some 
unknown markup to that field and clicks the button or link beside it, a 
new window pops up with the page that explains the markup. Technically, 
PmWiki could try to apply the markup rules and show the docs for the 
rule that matches at the first position in the pasted text.)

Adminstrator: here we have several groups.
a) Site administrator. Has write access to config.php, can set up farms, 
can destroy farms, can install recipes. Is automatically also the 
initial group administrator.
b) Group administrator. Can hand out permissions to authors.

Developer: again, several groups:
a) PmWiki core hacker. (Currently, that's just Pm himself *g*.)
b) Module/recipe developer.
c) Skin designer.

The subgroups have a rather diverse background and set of facilities 
available to them (e.g. skin designers have a different set of variables 
than module developers, for example).

Regards,
Jo