[Mediawiki-l] to require login or not

Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers at gmail.com
Sat Sep 2 11:08:08 UTC 2006


It would largely depend on the circumstances: If you're using a wiki for
work, then I would probably agree with your coworker.  Logging in isn't
particularly difficult, and cookies do indeed enable you to stay logged in
from the same computer.

On 9/2/06, gmu 2k6 <gmu2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running a wiki at work and a coworker asked me to require login
> for any article editing so that he can see who created/modified the
> article. my point is that the barrier to surf-by-editing is too high with
> logins required. then he said that people can use Cookies to be
> logged in always.
>
> what do you guys think? I'm trying to form a well-informed opinion
> for the discussion.
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