It would be nice if we could encourage people to login. Not so much so we can watchdog people. But so we know who deserves the kudos. :)
There are any number of reasons why we might want to interact with wiki editors. But without a logon, we have no idea who's helping us out. :) The account creation process is painless. (Try it and see!) I doubt that it would discourage participation. -Ted. On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:53:57 +0000, Robert Leland wrote: > I am -0 on logins. Correcting malicious changes > to the pages hopefully won't be to hard as long as > there is a history trail we can roll back to. > Also if a login account only requires a verified > email account, if someone wanted to hack the page, > they would still do it. Where it would get hard to > police would be if small incremental changes were > made over time. > > > -Rob > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Martin Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, April 8, 2004 04:27 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Should we require wiki logins? >> >> >> Seeing the first wiki change notification messages today, I >> realise that logging in to the wiki is not required before making >> changes. In such cases, all we get is an IP address as an >> indication of who made the changes. >> >> I'm not entirely sure if this is possible, but if the wiki can be >> configured to require logins, then should we make it so, so that >> we can have some idea of who is doing what? I think that would be >> good, but wanted to see how others feel before I go ahead and >> make a request of the infra folks. >> >> WDYT? >> >> >> -- >> Martin Cooper >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> --- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For >> additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
