Ned Slider wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote: > >> >> b) Opening up the wiki >> >> We had some more or less internal talks about that on Fosdem and via >> mail and on IRC. While the situation we have at the moment keeps >> spammers away, it also keeps away people who would like to edit stuff on >> the wiki or just correct an error on the page, as they have to create an >> account, subscribe to this mailing list *and* get access to pages they >> want to edit or correct. >> >> Opening up the wiki completely does mean, that we will have to deal with >> spam, so we need an active Editor Group for the wiki - people who get >> mails for each page which has changed (maybe even for comments, see >> above) and check that against our (nonwritten) policy. > > So how would that work - you could post/edit without even having an > account? I see how that would lead to spam. You will still need an account to edit the wiki, and we increase the bar for creating that account a little bit ( by making sure the email address specified is unique, non spammy and deliverable ). So anyone could get an account instantly. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq