There is no issue whatsoever if people think it's best to log in before editing. Personally I think it's just an extra step, (nothing stops you from creating bogus accounts), and so far additions to WikiGlide have been quite good.
Tell y'all what though... I'll enable user logins to edit data (of course viewing it doesn't require a login). It might put a lot of unsure people's mind at ease. I have a LOT of data to upload tonight, so hopefully we'll start to see the wiki as becoming useful and comprehensive over the next few weeks. I really urge people to add their own comments to article that are already there, and if you want to plug your business or your club, feel free to. The club data I've put up there is simply ganked from GFA and the club's website, and may be either a little out-of-date (depending on when the club last updated its site! Some are a few years old). I want to have a lot of data up there before I eventually announce it to Australian Soaring magazine, so please add anything you can. Even if you don't know how to drive a wiki, give it a try , as I've added a few Help files that should be relatively easy to understand. A good one to put up there is your pilot profile... just use either Heath's or mine as a guide. Thanks to everyone who has given it a plug on the worldwide forums and who has contributed data already. Much appreciated. Cheers,. Gus On 1/30/06, Jason and Jemima Armistead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nigel and all > > Do not fear, your content on RF Developments was not deleted. To > paraphrase, the rumours of its demise are greatly exagerated !. Rather, it > was repositioned on its own page, as it should be, slightly "wikified" and > added to the Category of Instrumentation manufacturers. The Manufacturers > category on the main page has some text which links to the Instrumentation > manufacturers category, and the main page also has its own Instrumentation > manufacturers link. > > As I tried to educate everyone previously when the wiki was first > announced, Categories are really not for content. Content belongs in > Articles, and you can then assign the article to a Category (or to several > categories). > > Maybe other instrumentation manufacturers, or their local representatives, > might like to add an Article about each brand they stock, and a bit about > their own business (each in separate articles please !). > > Both Gus Stewart (who hosts the site) and myself monitor content changes > via an RSS feed Basically every change is noticed by us. If we see > something in the wrong place, we'll move to correctly place it and > categorise it, rather than letting the wiki grow completely wild. With a > bit of basic pruning and grooming, hopefully the overall structure will be > fairly logical. > > As far as anonymous editing goes, I probably think we should require users > to register and login to be able to edit. The gliding community is fairly > small and close-knit, and it make some sense to know who is editing what, > so that any discussion on article positioning, etc can be directed to the > appropriate user. Longer term, we may be able to switch that off - > Wikipedia is a large target for vandals, simply be cause it is such a well > known site. Hopefully hackers don't consider the gliding community and > WikiGlide to be worth bothering with. Wikipedia now requires logins for > all people starting articles, after a couple of high profile acts of > vandalism. > > Gus might like to look at > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Require_users_log_in_to_edit > > and enable the requirement to have users login before they can edit. > > Cheers > > Jason Armistead > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
