Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?

2010-12-03 Thread Michelle Gallaway
I'm not exactly sure how a lot of these things work, but would it be possible to allow open editing in only the talk namespaces, but not anywhere else? That way the members could have their private space, and the peanut gallery is kept from interfering but can still participate to a limited

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?

2010-12-03 Thread private musings
Hi Michelle, We could certainly try that as a matter of policy - as in, simply communicating that rule clearly to all comers - I'd happily be prepared to do some of the legwork in explaining how that works to would be editors. Probably it would work better in tandem with continuing the

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?

2010-12-03 Thread Michelle Gallaway
I was more interested in seeing if this could be enforced by technology, maybe so that unconfirmed users simply didn't get an edit button on other name spaces. On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 8:08 PM, private musings thepmacco...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Michelle, We could certainly try that as a matter of

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] open wiki editing for WMAU?

2010-12-03 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Michelle Gallaway mgalla...@gmail.com wrote: I was more interested in seeing if this could be enforced by technology, maybe so that unconfirmed users simply didn't get an edit button on other name spaces. This would be my preference as well, at least for the

[Wikimediaau-l] Open it up / thoughts. (was:Donation statistics now live)

2010-12-03 Thread Richard Ames
Thanks for your replies Peter and Adam. I think WMAU needs to be a lot more open --- this discussion about having a closed / open wiki has been going on for a long time. When WMAU first started I sent an anonymous donation of $50 by check I did not want to fill out all the details to be a