[cgiapp] Future of the wiki

Mark Fuller azfuller at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 13:25:40 EST 2010


> Cees is completely right. Many of us are very busy people and wouldn't
> have time to monitor a forum.

It's been mentioned a couple times already that most forum software
has RSS syndication and email notification.

The original topic was that David wanted more participation in the
wiki, particularly cleaning up spam. And, to make it easy for people
to edit the wiki.

IMO, those are contradictory goals to the goal of email-based
discussion. When discussion postings are authenticated, a participants
behavior can be used to identify she's not likely to spam. Their
authentication (after demonstrated posting behavior) can be used to
access the wiki (making it easy).

I agree that it's different, with positives and negatives.

Mark


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