How do I share a free wiki without letting the general public (or my students) vandalize it?
The easy answer is that you can’t. However, you can limit the vandalism anyone can do by making some additional wikis for backup. Here’s what we advise educators: Three free wikis might work well for you. • One for yourself, marked Private so no one else can see it. • One for the class, marked Public so that everyone can see it, but you will be the only one with a password and editing control. • One for the class, marked Private, for which they have the password and will edit. You can copy pages back and forth between the student wikis and your own if you want to keep those pages “safe”. Also remember that PBwiki stores every change you make to a page, so it can easily be reverted to an older version if vandalism occurs.
