As an alternative to a fully open Wiki, I would be in favor of Jon's proposal. It still allows everyone to participate, but it also sets a bit of a threshold for the first couple of posts. However, I feel it would be beneficial to limit the number of approvals until someones status is adapted to either give full editing rights or to revoke them. After all, you don't need a hunderd posts to see if someone is an addition to the editing team or not.
Arne On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Jonathan Buford <[email protected]>wrote: > What we just wound up doing for the Lean Startup Circle group wiki is to > make the default as requiring admin review, and then the admin can change > the user settings to automatically post once they have been vetted. > > This works well enough since there are edits only once every few days, so > the admin burden is not too high. I'm not sure what the volume of new legit > edits are, but probably it would be similar, where there are probably few > new contributors within a short period that would be legit. > > Jon Buford > @jonbuford > > > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Chris, Dossy, et al., >> >> Anyone who creates a free account on the wiki is automatically an >> editor already, right? Isn't that how spammers are already able to >> post whatever they want and how we're all able to add and edit details >> about our spaces? >> >> That's a lead in to asking if there's any way we could actually make >> the wiki less accessible rather than adding editors? We're all already >> editors and right now pretty much every page is loaded with spam, it >> has been for months and months, and it shows in the current quality of >> the wiki. >> >> I know this adds an administrative burden to someone, but we could >> keep it relatively simply by just requiring people to send a paragraph >> description of who they are in order to get permission, and even have >> several administrators dealing with the approvals so the workload is >> distributed? Or is there an easier way? >> >> Will >> >> On Jun 29, 11:23 pm, Rosie Sherry <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I've been seeing more spam cropping up. Some in the form of comments, >> but >> > alot in the form of sneaky page edits. >> > >> > We can all edit pages, I've cleaned up the Brighton area and will do the >> UK. >> > >> > Perhaps others can do their local area? >> > >> > On 15 May 2010 21:53, Dossy Shiobara <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > Chris, >> > >> > > I was the OP asking for similar privileges. Can I have them, too? >> > >> > > -- >> > > Dossy Shiobara >> > > [email protected] >> > >> > > ------------------------------ >> > > *From: * Chris Messina <[email protected]> >> > > *Date: *Sat, 15 May 2010 13:49:36 -0700 >> > > *To: *Tara Hunt<[email protected]> >> > > *Cc: *<[email protected]> >> > > *Subject: *Re: [Coworking] Wiki vandalism >> > >> > > Added you (Mark) as an editor. >> > >> > > Also went and deleted a bunch of spam (there's likely loads more). >> > >> > > Sigh. >> > >> > > Chris >> > >> > > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Tara Hunt <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> Because I don't think he checks the google group every day, I'm >> cc'ing >> > >> Chris Messina, who set up the wiki in the first place. >> > >> > >> Tara >> > >> > >> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Mark McCorkle <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> > >> > >>> I would also like to volunteer to assist in the wiki reverts and >> comment >> > >>> cleanups. >> > >> > >>> ::Mark >> > >> > >>> On May 14, 2010 6:46 PM, "Steven Heath" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >>> On 15 May 2010 02:33, Dossy Shiobara <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > It >> > >>> appears that the Coworking W... >> > >>> Until about month ago I was one of the people that would revert the >> spam >> > >>> edits. 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