From: | Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de> |
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To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
Cc: | "Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [pgsql-advocacy] We need an Advocacy wiki |
Date: | 2007-08-05 08:11:50 |
Message-ID: | 46B58646.30109@wildenhain.de |
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Magnus Hagander schrieb:
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> Not sure that's a fair count. Looking at the wiki user list there are
> certainly 215 accounts. But by my untrained eye, a lot of those look
> like automated users created by spam-bots in order to see if they can
> create spam-pages. It could be that we have actual users named Zy9Yqd,
> Yx9Qbh and Xj0Y6g, but I seriously doubt it. And that's a clear
> indication that there are people (or rather, bots) probing the wiki
> already trying to post crap.
>
>
>> Can we please just give the public wiki a chance instead of coming up
>> with a bunch of reasons it won't work before we've even tried? It's not
>> like it's hard to change things later if needed.
>>
>> (BTW, when I say public wiki I mean one where anyone with an account can
>> edit, not one where you don't need an account.)
>
> As long as that holds, I'm absolutely up for giving it a try. Maybe part
> of the disagreement has been from a misunderstanding of what a "public
> wiki" is. In my book, a *public* wiki is one that doesn't need a
> verified account. (I assume that you refer to verified account above. If
> not, I don't agree until you add the word verified)
Maybe the users could be created by referral or invitation? This way
you would form a little web of trust instead of having almost alien
people (or bots) trying to write something related to postgres.
Regards
Tino
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