[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Beckett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Bram Moolenaar wrote:
I think this puts too much burdon the volunteers that become an admin.
And it defeats the easy of use of a wiki.
I was suggesting that people who have a tip, or a change, would
email it to a Vim mailing list, where it would be massaged by the
community, then posted to the wiki by an admin. Yes, that would
burden the admins, and is against the spirit of a wiki.
However, as I understand the Google wiki, a person wanting to post
a tip would need to have a Google ID, and would have to mail an
admin, and the admin would have to add the new person as an admin,
then reply to the mail.
That's also a pain for an admin, and is not really easy use of a wiki
either. And which admin would be emailed?
John
Hello all,
I just want to give you some ideas that you could maybe be useful for the Wiki
(which I think is a great idea) or its administration.
Concerning the registration, a reply mail for a confirmation of the activation
of the membership is a great idea, and would prevent some bots to automatically
post on the Wiki.
Moreover, as an upper security level, the registering candidate could be asked
to write down the numbers/letters that he/she would see on a picture
representing those numbers/letters. That would prevent the registering
candidate to be a bot or at least reduce it ever more (I've seen this in a
couple of forums around).
I believe that all the members, asking for a registration, should be able to
post tips. In order to make it possible, I think that 3 levels of members
should be there:
1. Admins : they manage the users and the wiki (they would have all the
rights the reviewers have. See below)
2. Reviewers: the can review, edit and delete any post written in the wiki (it
would facilitate the admins burden) and also manage the sections (create, move
tips from a section to another, ...)
3. Members : they can post tips and modify their own post. They become sort of
the owner of their post but where reviewers and admins can overlook it
also comment on other people's tips and move other people's comments into the
main text of their own posts. This implies the ability to remove other
people's comments to the member's posts. Or does it?
If possible, the wiki should include a "history" feature to allow reviewers to
reverse malicious postings more easily.
If possible, it would be well (IMO) if users could enable a "mail me" feature
so they would get an email if any page of their choice gets modified, or if
one of their own pages get a new comment.
In this way, the responsability is a bit more spread and the admins are not
only responsible for the Wiki contents.
Regarding the type of wiki, I just checked out Mediawiki for work and it seems
pretty nice but I don't know if it would meet what I proposed but if you think
my ideas could be used, I could check it out.
I hope it helped.
Gregory SACRE
Best regards,
Tony.
--
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
-- Beckett
