[cgiapp] Future of the wiki

[Alex]

Hi!

Regarding the point to authenticate a user as wiki editor after x posts,
there is another, more work intensive way to do this, I came across these
days in the internet. The forum of apfeltalk.de offers a small area where
everyone can post & edit threads and where anything is automatically deleted
after 14 days. The other, bigger area is for registered and activated users
only. You have to shorly introduce yourself, answer a few questions (e.g.
what do you use your mac for) and then the account gets activated.

As it seems like a lot of work, I would not throw the idea away that quick.
You can do such activation procedure for the "be a wiki editor" - part only.
So users can use the forum as usual, but can edit the wiki only after they
introduced themselves.
Hth, Alex

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Von: cgiapp-bounces at lists.openlib.org
[mailto:cgiapp-bounces at lists.openlib.org] Im Auftrag von Mark Fuller
Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Februar 2010 09:30
An: CGI Application
Betreff: Re: [cgiapp] Future of the wiki

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:01 PM, David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:
>
> I think we definitely need to put some some anti-spam techniques to
> discourage the spammers, but I am worried that real users with ideas or
> corrections to contribute would not bother to ask for access.

I want to mention again: If a forum were used instead of an email
list, wiki edit access could be tied to the forum's authentication
(deriving benefit from the forum's anti-spam registration techniques),
and based upon a forum member's demonstrated non-spammy activity
(they're a member of the wiki editor's group after 10 posts to the
forum?).

I believe a mailing list loses valuable attributes about participants.
There's no way to correlate and capitalize upon the fact that user xyz
has a demonstrated track record of not generating spam, and therefore
can be trusted to edit the wiki.

The other benefit of a forum (over a mailing list) is that it can
exist on the same site as the wiki. The two can be linked together,
helping discussion participants pay more attention to the wiki (and
wiki browsers pay more attention to the discussions). One-stop
location for knowledge-base and discussion information.

Mailing lists seem so 1990. I'd ditch it and go with a forum.

Mark

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