Wiki / Wiki Configuration for Collabrative Writing

Question

I'm setting up an educational website, and I'm trying to configure a wiki or wiki-like webpage system to work on collaborative writing projects. It should be:

• Public, i.e. registered and non-registered users can view everything
• Allow Only Closed Contributions, i.e. only registered users/students can contribute
• Area for Administrators/Teachers to track contributions of individual contributors and know what they did
• Time limit for contributions, i.e. setup a deadline after which the page closes

I work mostly on CMSs like Drupal and Joomla so I'm leaning towards PHP-based solutions. MediaWiki seems to be the all powerful choice, but perhaps too much to offer and too much for students to understand. Any suggestions for alternative educational wikis for collaborative writing?

Answer 1

If you use Drupal already, I would configure Drupal to do what you want, as it can be exactly what you want and and you are already familiar with it.

Here is a write up on the modules you can choose from when creating a wiki environment in Drupal.

Or you could start out with an install profile (configured version of Drupal) set up to resemble a wiki.