Shared Blog / Wiki Capability :)

I was just reviewing a BI blog that was on how to identify and solve some common load problems in the BW.
Was wondering if there isn't some way to collect some of these types of blogs postings so that rather than being splattered across several author's blogs.
Could a moderated shared blog be a possible answer, a wiki? I suppose the author could try to pursue getting it published as an offical "How To", but these are usually a more modest effort.
I think what I'm looking for is a way to collect or index these helpful types of blogs. It might be nice to be able to pull together good forum threads that also serve as reference material.
There are many options with the forum and blog features. Just trying to find a better way that we can "harvest" all the knowledge that's available on SDN, and perhaps elsewhere.
Is it a wiki, is it a shared blog? Would it need to be moderated? Maybe it's something along the lines of a dedicated area like the BW Performance Tuning Knowledge Center on SDN - https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/developerareas/bi.sdn?page=bi_performance.htm
Any thoughts? Suggestions?

Hi Pizzaman,
Don't forget that there is the Weblogs by Topic area. There all the BI Weblogs are listed:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/weblogs.sdn?blog=/weblogs/topic/11
Does not help with all the great forum posts.
In XI Michal Krawczyk created an XI FAQ Weblog:
/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/06/28/xipi-faq-frequently-asked-questions that he is updating.
Great, but not ideal. So yes the Wiki would be the best.
One thing we are struggling with though is how to reward good contributions on a Wiki. After all it is often a collective thing. We can't keep an eye on every page and give points accordingly. But we would like to reward people for good content nevertheless. How to do that?
Ideas very welcomed, Mark.
P.S. I guess I will have to skip your pizza for now and will come back to you when I am one day in your neck of the woods

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I write to you as a brand-newbie in the Leopard server world, and I have found many posts here invaluable in helping me get setup and running. I have been unable to figure out getting the blog/wiki/webcalendar working completely, though, and any aid would be most welcome. Please keep in mind that 1 week ago I knew exactly nothing about running/configuring a server, so the simplest/dumbest/plainest answers would probably work best.
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Hi MrHoffman,
Thanks again for the reply.
I hear you about Verizon. I checked in with them and they are indeed blocking port 80 and gave no indication that that would change without a considerably bigger package - not realistic or reasonable for our small studio. But the DynDns strategy seems to work well - I can successfully access the network remotely in many ways: vnc, afp, web, etc...
I got you about web clients needing to add the port to the URL. That's how I've been remotely browsing to the server to get the error I'm encountering.
VPN: Originally I wanted to set this up, but read some things about VPN not working through an AEBS. Maybe I'll return to it, but for now I want to focus on a non-VPN strategy. Partly b/c of the hassle (one thing at a time...) and partly b/c we'll probably be accessing this stuff from a variety of computers and wouldn't want VPN hassles to get in the way of simple web access.
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I have new suspicion too: that this might have to do with the DNS setup on the server. I wonder because: when I go on the server machine itself and try to browse to server.mydomain.com or even www.mydomain.com (which should take you outside the LAN to the internet to deliver our website running on our host), I get a "Safari can't find the server server.mydomain.com" error. But if I input one of 2 IPs (10.0.1.201 and 127.0.0.1) I'll get taken to the proper server homepage. But it breaks on the group page just like remote access does.
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W

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For more information chk the below links:
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Brand new Xserve, Server version: 10.5.2
I'm going out on a limb here and admitting that I have no idea what I'm doing. My employer bought into the "so easy a non tech person can do it" idea and bought an xserve to have wikis and blogs. The idea is to have one web page with links to departmental wikis and blogs.
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Changing the owner/group of wikis...
The Apple website for OS X.5 Server includes a basic primer on command line editing, you should go through it. That aside, you will need to know your administrative (root) password to accomplish this, if not, you won’t get past the first ‘su’ command. The following instructions assume you are using a completely ‘default’ setup and not trying to have your collaboration folders on another file system or anything tricky.
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total 8
drwxr-x--- 4 _teamsserver _teamsserver 136 Apr 22 20:12 ArchivedGroups
drwxr-x--- 3 _teamsserver _teamsserver 374 Apr 23 11:34 Groups
drwxr-x--- 3 _teamsserver _teamsserver 102 Mar 14 21:43 Users
-rw-r----- 1 _teamsserver _teamsserver 249 Feb 14 17:54 dataVersion.plist
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sh-3.2# ls -l collaboration/groups/pyrranwiki
total 24
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-rw-r----- 1 _teamsserver _teamsserver 5120 Apr 22 21:02 index.db
drwxr-x--- 2 _teamsserver _teamsserver 68 Apr 22 20:12 mailinglist
-rw-r----- 1 _teamsserver _teamsserver 484 Apr 23 11:34 metadata.plist
drwxr-x--- 2 _teamsserver _teamsserver 68 Apr 22 20:12 public
drwxr-x--- 2 _teamsserver _teamsserver 68 Apr 22 20:12 resources
drwxr-x--- 2 _teamsserver _teamsserver 68 Apr 22 20:12 weblog
drwxr-x--- 3 _teamsserver _teamsserver 102 Apr 22 20:12 wiki
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total 0
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6. If you noticed any of these owners or groups showing something other than _teamsserver then perform the following command which will change the owner and group for the entire directory structure of /libaray/collaboration. (NOTE: Upper/lower case IS important here! NOTE: “teamsserver” has two “s”’s in it!):
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My apologies if this has been asked before.
My blog no longer allows comments. This occurred when I used the Automator program to add google analytics to my site. The good news is that google analytics does work. I host the site on mobile me so I have 2 questions
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