>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/blog Peace, love & metadata Sent from Sydney, Nsw, Australia On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:36 PM, private musings <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 necessary technical changes, given the appropriate access? > > @brianna / other committee types reading - would you mind nick having said > access, and making said changes? I think it'd be most helpful :-) > > it'd be very cool to move towards resolving this one in reasonably short > order :-) > > cheers, > > Peter, > PM. > > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:41 PM, K. Peachey <[email protected]>wrote: > >> > If spam is the main reason to have accounts, would using a CAPTCHA for >> > non-confirmed accounts help? (is that a simple option in Mediawiki?) >> > Otherwise I'd recommend nothing more restrictive than "confirm email >> address >> > to edit" >> > Peter Halasz >> > [[User:Pengo]] >> I believe, although maybe wrong but its part of the core until a user >> is autoconfirmed. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaau-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > >
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