I suppose my feeling is that the level of useful editing activity is in some way a function of how open the environment is, and my plan is to test that feeling by making the environment more open, and hopefully witnessing more productive editing :-)
As to specifics, I'd like to encourage all manner of folk I come across in day to day wanderings to engage with WMAU by creating an account, asking a question, making a suggestion etc. etc. - in my view its this engagement which will help us as a membership figure the best directions to focus our energies. The whole idea of having to apply for an account seems a bit of a pain to be honest - but obviously if the pain isn't worth the gain then it's a no go... I use recent changes to see what's been going on generally so it would be a huge pain for it to be filled with nonsense all the time, on the other hand, I think I could manage if it was only for a short period - I have a niggling feeling that it wouldn't actually be that bad - but I suppose there's only one way to find out ;-) cheers, Peter, PM. On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Angela <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Peter Musings <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Ah,,, Spam is certainly a good reason not to open the floodgates - do you > > think it would definitely be too much for one volunteer (ie. me) to > handle, > > Angela? > > Spam accounts tend to flood recent changes on small wikis and there's > not anything you can do about it as they can't be deleted. There may > be extensions to allow account deletion but I don't think there's a > case to get a bunch of anti-spam extensions when we don't yet have a > spam problem. > > > Is there a readily available technical tool to reduce the ability to spam > > bots to cause trouble? > > There's not one simple way to do this. It's a case of adding lots of > different extensions and having someone on the server side that can be > constantly on top of this and adjusting things as the spam bots learn > to get around the barriers. Even wikis with captchas end up with spam > bots that have defeated those captchas. It's not something that can be > handled wiki-side alone and I don't think we have the tech support > here to handle it. > > > It's the lack of accounts, and general wiki action that I think might be > > helped by trialling an open registration process. > > I'm not convinced it will make a difference. We've trialled allowing > non-members to have accounts and with one exception they haven't > edited anyway. Even the members aren't really editing the wiki so what > would non-members do there? > > Angela > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >
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