I notice there tend to be two flavors of wiki on ASF project, 1. Wikis that are limited to project committers (so pretty much as closely-held as the web site)
2. Wikis that are writable by anyone who sets up an account and then request write and editing permission from the project. (This is different than a level of administrative access that allows granting of such accounts.) In the past there were fully-open Wikis, but it was discovered that lead to adulteration by spam and make curation too difficult. So, instead, the fully-open Wikis, such as the AOO Community Wiki, were changed to provide authorization only upon request to the dev list. I favor (2) as a way to encourage community-participation. There are many fully capable to contribute valuable content on wikis and forums and who do not have project-developer ambitions. I prefer to see that kind of contribution encouraged. Although Corinthia is looking more to tool-building than end-user interests, it still strikes me that having the wiki as open as practical is a good idea. Has any thought been given to this already? What are the views on this?
