On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Bobbi Fox wrote:
I think it's a great idea, modulo the ability to limit editing access per the comments that have come before, and the absolute committment *NOT* to have the "theme" be red and orange :-)
Fine then, orange it is, and nothing but orange on orange on orange!
But -- isn't the whole *point* of a wiki that *anyone* can edit it? Forcing some kind of "you must be a member of Boston.pm" scheme seems to be [a] against the spirit of wikis, [b] possibly hard to define (there must be people who go to meetings but aren't on the list, and vice versa), and [c] possibly a pain to maintain.
If we're going to need some kind of registration system, I wouldn't want it to be any more cumbersome than "create an account to edit", the way Twiki does. Signing up for such an account should ipso facto mean that the person signing up is "now a Boston.pm member", and it should provide only enough overhead that we can track who is editing what.
That way, if spammers sign up, we can clean up the mess more quickly. For the (much) more common case of people being honest, the burden isn't that bad.
If making contributions is a pain in the ass, no one is going to do it.
Forcing registration will make it be a pain in the ass.
Ergo, I think registration should be done carefully & with reluctance.
-- Chris Devers _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
