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From: Lukas Kahwe Smith <[email protected]>
To: Gregory Stark <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] We need an Advocacy wiki
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:49:03 +0200
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Greg Sabino Mullane" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Not sure what your definition of normal is; that depends on what you mean by 
>> "registered". If it means just creating an account via web form, that's 
>> harldy an impediment to vandalism. We can certainly give more people the power 
>> to grant write-access to wiki accounts, if that's the perceived hold up.
> 
> Do we have any history of vandalism on the -hackers mailing list? There is no
> approval mechanism for people subscribing to the list. Would people be happy
> if every subscription to -hackers required someone to approve your membership?
> 
> I went to do update the wiki recently, found I didn't have write access and
> gave up and went back to other things. I think any extra barriers are a bad
> thing. It ought to be open until there's a demonstrable problem rather than
> preemptively making it less useful because we anticipate problems we have no
> evidence of.

Well we should definately require a login, even if its just so that we 
can trace who made what changes so that we know who has taken 
responsibility over a given section.

regards,
Lukas

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