Karanbir Singh wrote: > 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. > > +1 for that - sounds like a good compromise IMHO.