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
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 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
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
