Talk:Plone (software)

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explaining what's wrong so they can fix it themselves. MatthewWilkes (talk) 18:05, 23 December 2007 (UTC)


Is there any explanation for the remarkable resemblance of Wikipedia's new look, and Plone's?

My guess would be that columns have become some kind of standard in visually structuring webpages, as they also go nicely with Cascading Style Sheets. Same will be true for tabs sitting on top of some content or main column. But behind the scenes, the content management model is quite different, as well as the language it is programmed in - both Python and PHP are open for web standards and whatever the site is to look like. --Vintagesound 22:18, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/style/monobook/main.css, mainly the line
** Loosely based on http://www.positioniseverything.net/ordered-floats.html by Big John
** and the Plone 2.0 styles, see http://plone.org/ (Alexander Limi,Joe Geldart & Tom Croucher,
** Michael Zeltner and Geir Bækholt)
** All you guys rock :)
[ alerante | “” 00:53, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC) ]
Ay, now that I found that hint as well I wanted to add it! :D --Vintagesound 13:54, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Plone should probably be added to the list of CMS's right? Even though its based on Zope etc...

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[edit] NPOV/quotations

The article says "grown into one of the most popular and powerful open-source content management systems in the world.[1]". How is a list of books a source for this claim? 61.9.200.131 07:14, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I haven't read the book. However visiting The Plone list of sites you will find a list of currently 513 sites. Interesting entries are CIA (can this vouch for security qualities of Plone?), numerous academic institutions, financial services and investing (can these vouch for the reliability of Plone?), non-profit (can these vouch for the cost effectiveness of Plone?) and more. --85.164.186.210 17:08, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Security

It's secure,

At what level is a product considered "secure"? --Midnightcomm 23:03, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

CIA uses Plone. They know a thing or two about security. --85.164.186.210 17:10, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
According to Secunia there have only been 3 security advisories registered (number matches those of Mitre), all of which were classified as less critical. Would this and the CIA use be worth adding to the article? --21:18, 29 August 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.164.185.108 (talk)

[edit] External links and references

I tried to put in a link to my site of free Plone lessons, but it was removed. I do not se ethe difference between the links to books about Plone (the commercial ones don't give you anything free) and putting my link to www.insmallsteps.com ? Please check out what I have put together, as I am getting good feedback form users taking the lessons. Everything is free on the site for the users. They listed it on plone.net with no problem. Please advise. Thanks, Jamie Robe

Deletionists do not add, they delete, and much has been deleted from this article
deletionists do not discuss, they just delete, and very little is commented upon here
deletionists do not advise or inform, they only delete, and agree with fellow deletionists
deletionists do not care, they just delete, referring to WP:thinexcuses and WP:phaseofthemoon
In summary you can leave links for perusals on this page and hope people see it but you risk deletionists wipe your comments too as has happened in the past. Your best bet is making it appear on Googling. The main free book on Plone is sadly incomplete and increasingly out of date so if you update it and add your tutorials your site could become established for newcomers to Plone. Just don't put your hopes in Wikipedia, it is a loss. --21:48, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] review on strength and weaknesses

I removed the paragraph outlining some of the possible strengths and weaknesses, not because there's no truth to it in my experience but because not even the smallest attempt was made to provide a notable source. Opinions on how accessible, secure or slow a constantly updated product is should not belong in Wikipedia, unless it's a notable opinion, linked to specific version, reviewers and dates Furoria 09:31, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Did you try checking? Like this talk page for instance? Security as a strength is actually listed here under the title Security as a discussion topic and references are indeed provided. Why did you decide just to wipe the section rather than adding a cite tag or perhaps even participate in the discussion here?? --21:06, 14 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.164.177.149 (talk)

[edit] More deletions

A recent deletion was made under the alibi Removed undocumented view on perceived qualities but appeared to fail to see the link that was deleted too: http://www.packtpub.com/plone/book Said link provides the following statement:

Plone is an open source content management system built on the powerful object-oriented Zope application server. Easy to use, powerful, extensible, and well-supported by an extensive team of developers and contributors, Plone has quickly become one of the most popular open source content management servers.

Furthermore a list of Plone sites is provided at Plone: http://plone.net/sites (currently listing 977 sites. This too has been discussed earlier on this talk page under the heading NPOV/quotations. --21:16, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Plone-logo-2008.png

Image:Plone-logo-2008.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Release History

Can we get a release history chart in here, possibly similar to the one in Ubuntu? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_linux#Releases Altonbr (talk) 16:14, 9 April 2008 (UTC)