Publication process

There is an internal PBL wiki and an external wiki. The external wiki is a subset of the internal wiki and is meant to be viewed by webusers. The implementation will probably (discussion item) be by installing one wiki inside the firewall and one wiki outside the firewall. The external wiki will be filled by an import of pages from the internal wiki and periodically updated.

• Internal wiki: This wiki is visible for PBL employees and external people that can login (?). In principle all contentpages are visible for all these people. However there will be a difference between viewers, writers and administrators, with more options available in this sequence. Viewers can view and discuss; writers will have an extended menu with functions to add content and may edit pages; administrators can change the structure and maintain user rights and use other maintenance functions.
• External wiki: This is the publishable part of the internal wiki and will be accessible for the outside world via a PBL URL.

How to handle changes

There are several situations with different solutions:

1. Minor text change, may be a correction or enhancement: Enter the changes in the wiki.
2. Small adaptations to model components or substantial rewriting of a description: ****
3. Substantial change resulting in a new version: When making a substantial change to your model by adding a submodule or changing the conceptual model, ****

Create new version of an existing component

Steps for creation:

1. Copy existing component page 'ComponentX' to the page Next:ComponentX
2. Edit Next:ComponentX and adjust the used template to NextComponentTemplate2 (how?)

Now you have a component in the Next-namespace which you can edit without consequences for the existing wiki. All created links (infobox, inputs/outputs, asumptions, policy interventions,…) will be located in the namespace 'Next'

Steps for publishing, this is an action for the 'gardener':

1. Copy all pages in the "Main' namespace to the 'Previous' namespace (or only changed component and how ?)
2. Copy all pages from the 'Next' namespace concerning the new version into the 'Main' (how)

This way we will have an active documenation of the previous, current and next version of the IMAGE framework