Brian McKee wrote:
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On 23-Feb-07, at 3:00 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
On 23-Feb-07, at 2:32 PM, Tom Purl wrote:
I've done a bit of work on the vimtips wiki at Google the last few days,
and it's come to my attention that it isn't really designed to do what
we want it to do.
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So what do you guys think?
I think the whole point behind using a wiki is to make it easy for
people to contribute.
Forcing a manual registration process defeats the whole purpose of the
thing in my mind.
Brian
Whoops - wrong reply button... Redirected above to list and added below.
On 23-Feb-07, at 3:04 PM, Yakov Lerner wrote:
Regarding anonymous contributions, they proved problematic on
vim.org/tips.
Anonymous contrib was what created uneditable tips in the first place
on vim.org/tips. The idea was "only the author can edit the post", but
since anonymous tips have no registered authors, they are totally
uneditable,
which is hardly an advantage.
I question the value of anonymous posts. First. Are we exchanging the
rootkits
or pirated software ? We are not. What is the value of anonymous in
the opensource community ?
Second. If someone can remain anonymous, he can register as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and remain anonymous but still having registration.
I think the point is not 'anonymous' per se - obviously identity can't
easily be proved anyway.
A very simple registration process that doesn't require 3rd party
intervention or waiting on email is best I think.
Waiting for email (with a pseudorandom confirmation code) proves that the
registration wasn't requested "in your name" by someone else. It requires no
human intervention server-side and only a few minutes' wait client-side while
greatly improving security. It also proves that your "email-address-of-record"
with the wiki is really yours. I'm for it.
Enough to slow down the spammers without slowing down the users.
As Yakov points out, if people could easily edit things now, the spam
would long since have been removed.
Make sure the wiki has an easy 'rollback' feature to remove spam and RSS
feeds and I'm happy.
Indeed, with a history & diff feature as on "the" Wiki.
Brian
Best regards,
Tony.
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