New WAPA Web under construction

George Clark writes: This is the beginnings of a new WAPA Web Site. We are moving completely over to the Wiki and will eventually shut down the old wapa news web . The new collaboration platform is much easier to maintain. It is also simpler to use and is considerably more flexible. Most of the 2006 articles have been moved into the new format, and the old web is still online at http://ww2.worcesterapa.org/

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Over the next few months, we will be migrating news stories from the original WAPA web over to the Wiki. The first story about WAPA - a report on our new bylaws - was posted on February 23rd, 2002. In the 4+ years since, there have been 233 more stories posted to the web. If anyone would like to help migrating data from the old server into the new Wiki format, please contact me.

Choose an opinion from this list and submit with the "OK" button.

%VOTE{id="New_Web2" select1="How do you like it?" options1="Great,Good,Fair,Poor" select2="Do you agree with the change?" options2="Yes,No"}%

The new web has a number of significant improvements:

• It has a radically different editing model. (Based on Forgiveness, not Permission). Anyone can edit an article, and good revision controls allow inappropriate edits to be reversed. The content is not dependent upon approval by an "editor".
• The photo gallery software lets anyone post pictures to a gallery page. Previously your webmaster had to run a manual process to build each gallery
• The Userid/Password system can be applied to other areas of the web, such as the e-mail archives.
  • And the passwords and e-mail addresses are "self service". No more manual intervention and you can assign your own passwords.
• Article formatting is done with a simple visual markup- there is no requirement to know or understand HTML.
• The page layout is cleaner, smaller (by almost 50%), with fewer graphical components and should be faster to load.
• Although still not perfect, it comes much closer to passing validation for ADA Accessibility standards.

One note… I'm still seeing SPAM registrations. Robot's that register to Wiki sites and then automatically post SPAM and porn links to web pages to increase their page ranking in Internet search engines like Google. So for now the TWikiRegistration page is password protected. Request the TWikiRegistration password from mailto:info@worcesterapa.org

Please be sure to add your comments below, or mail them to feedback@worcesterapa.org

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-- GeorgeClark - 13 May 2006