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 clearly separate expressions by members, from expressions by non-members. Members are in a sense WMAU's first 'clients' or stakeholders. Members have made a financial and 'theoretical' commitment to WMAU (by agreeing to be bound by our Rules), which non-members have not. I guess my feeling is that having member spaces honours that commitment, which is perhaps cheapened if just anyone can take part without having to be a member. The possible non-member editing reasons that Peter Halasz suggests are relevant, although I note that non-members can take part in this mailing list. One compromise may be to open account creation to confirmed email, introduce a 'Members' user group, and restrict editing of particular namespaces, to that user group. cheers Brianna 2009/6/4 private musings <[email protected]>: > 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 > > -- They've just been waiting in a mountain for the right moment: http://modernthings.org/ _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
