A request came up to put one of the departmental student handbooks on-line. Requirements include ease of editing/updating, access control (only our students) and search. A wiki would be one way to go. But our WordPress MU installation makes deploying new sites a cinch, including the access control, making this my preferred place for this new application. And when I think of WordPress and book-type content, I think of CommentPress . CommentPress works with WPs page hierarcy, which I find users find more familiar than the more open wiki style of organization. And it uses WPs comment structure to allow readers to add their own notes to a page. Still allowing some interactivity, but also lets the author control the official language of the document.
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