I can't say I'm enamored with the idea of anonymous editing. As I recall, we
had several reasons for restricting editing. As Liam said, one was to
provide members privs (editing rights for the wiki is still listed on the
membership page as a member's benefit), and another was concern about
disrupti
My personal view is that the editing should be members only but it should be
as easy as possible for confirmed members to have the means to edit. I
believe this is presently the case so no change is required.
cheers
Andrew
2009/6/5 Brianna Laugher
> Hi,
>
> Having open editing for the website i
Hi,
Having open editing for the website is indeed not a technical problem
as Liam mentioned.
The thing that I am concerned about, in wanting to clearly delineate
'member' and 'open' spaces, is the situation where non-members have
undue influence or expression and it is not possible to simply and
>From what I recall, the reason we didn't have open editing of the Wikimedia
Australia wiki is by way of providing something special to members. I am
personally not against the idea of opening up the editing to non-members but
AFAICR that was the issue - not a technical one.
-Liam
wittylama.com/bl
found myself nodding furiously at Pengo's first post :-)
@nickj - it sound to me that you have the appropriate technical know how to
implement the 'open editing once you've confirmed your email' approach which
this thread seems to be moving towards - would you be prepared to make the
appropriate n
