We had this discussion where I work and the idea of not being able to
trace back the edit to a contact was deemed to be a bad thing since you
could not track down who made the edit in order to discuss what they
meant by that edit. Talk pages are limited in this respect since not
everyone uses them.
In our setup we require logins to edit (but anyone can read), allow
anyone to setup a login account and require email verification for the
account to be established. We were not particularly interested in
detering spamming or disgruntled employees. We simply wanted to know
which user made an edit so anyone could contact them about the edit
using the "Email this user" link in the toolbox. Since we use our wiki
for collaboration the idea of an anonymous editor makes little sense
since it is difficult to collaborate with those you cannot contact and
do not know.
We were worried about the effort people would go through to create an
account but we found no one was detered. It's a one-time effort and we
found that if people really wanted to contribute, the effort was not an
obstacle.
Hope this experience helps...
-Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Roberts [mailto:aroberts@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:22 AM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] to require login or not
On 02/09/06, gmu 2k6 <gmu2006(a)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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