[Mediawiki-l] to require login or not

[Rob Church]

On 02/09/06, 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.

I would think that in a corporate environment, it would be completely
reasonable to request that users are logged in. A little bit of work
with the auto-authentication hook, if using an external authentication
framework, might make the process deliriously simple.


Rob Church