I suppose my feeling is that the level of useful editing activity is in
some way a function of how open the environment is, and my plan is to test
that feeling by making the environment more open, and hopefully witnessing
more productive editing :-)
As to specifics, I'd like to encourage all manne
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Peter Musings wrote:
> Ah,,, Spam is certainly a good reason not to open the floodgates - do you
> think it would definitely be too much for one volunteer (ie. me) to handle,
> Angela?
Spam accounts tend to flood recent changes on small wikis and there's
not anyt
Ah,,, Spam is certainly a good reason not to open the floodgates - do you
think it would definitely be too much for one volunteer (ie. me) to handle,
Angela?
Is there a readily available technical tool to reduce the ability to spam
bots to cause trouble?
It's the lack of accounts, and general wik
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Peter Musings wrote:
> Here's a pre-proposal proposal for a modest change to the WMAU wiki - I'd
> like to suggest a trial of completely open registrations
I think this would lead to tons of spam and a few confused users.
There have only been 18 accounts made ove
This is certainly a reason for the status quo (I'm not saying it's a good
or bad reason, just that it is one that is true) but from recollection the
*primary* reason we locked editing when first creating the Chapter's Wiki
was as an incentive for membership of the Chapter. We quickly realised that
>From memory one of the orignal reasons for putting a restriction in place
was there is unlikely to be sufficient ongoing monitoring to enable a free
for all access by restricting editing to known accounts ie known people
limited such issues. As the wiki is for WMAU to work on WMAU activities
there
If we start to get edits on the chapter wiki which would be more
appropriate for another project, it'd be nice to engage a little with these
people, I think, it's an appropriate role for the chapter, I reckon.
Seems to me that even the relatively low bar of having to request an
account isn't ideal
The current situation is almost the "free for all" you request, except
that 99% of the non-spam requests are really for editing Wikipedia,
not Wikimedia Australia.
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Regards,
Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.)
On 29 November 2012 12:39, Peter Musings wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here's a pre-proposal propo
Hi all,
Here's a pre-proposal proposal for a modest change to the WMAU wiki - I'd
like to suggest a trial of completely open registrations - ie. allow anyone
so inclined to create an account without any approval required, and edit
away.
Perhaps editing of the homepage, and associated templates is
