My personal view is that the editing should be members only but it should be as easy as possible for confirmed members to have the means to edit. I believe this is presently the case so no change is required.
cheers Andrew 2009/6/5 Brianna Laugher <[email protected]> > 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 >
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