> -----Original Message----- > From: Ted Husted [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 5:19 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: Re: Should we require wiki logins? > > > 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. :)
Yes, this is closer to the thinking behind my suggestion. I wasn't thinking so much of tracking hackers as knowing who's coming up with the good ideas, helping out with documentation or whatever. These are things that we would want to take into account when considering someone for committership, for example. Also, knowing who the author is provides a starting point for any discussion about an addition or change to the wiki. One of my personal peeves about some wikis is how an addition or change spawns a "discussion" embedded in the wiki page itself. I'd much rather be able to send a message to the author, and cc the user or dev list, as appropriate. The discussion then happens on the mailing lists, and any follow-up decisions can be reflected in changes to the wiki pages. -- Martin Cooper > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
