[WikiEN-l] New Tool Suggestion, WAS: A cry to save the Asperger's Syndrome page

[Phroziac]

Sounds good, but it's super easy to register, and I will oppose all
attempts to make registration difficult. ;)

On 8/25/05, Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:21:34AM +0000, Zachary Harden wrote:
> >
> >
> > >From: Ryan Norton <wxprojects at comcast.net> 22 Aug 2005 18:19:20 -0700
> > >
> > >>Ok, so I voted to have the FA status removed from the article.Also, if you
> > >>payed attention,
> > >
> > >And I did realize this Z and I thank you for your contributions, but I have
> > >to ask - why is this user not banned for 24 hours?  Is it because he claims
> > >"injustice" etc. so admins fear getting involved?
> >
> > I just got involved. I was being asked to block the user before in IRC, but
> > as you can tell, he always edits by using IP's, so the likely hood of the
> > block working is zero to none, closer to none.  > Regards,
> > Zachary Harden
> 
> 
> Hmmm...   Suggestion:
> 
> When a page is in this type of "trouble", is it possible that one more
> tool in the toolbox would help?
> 
> That would be a tag which means a page is only editable from a
> logged-in Wiki-account.
> 
> All logged-in edits to the page would be processed as usual.
> 
> When an non-logged in user opened the edit tab on that page they would
> get a message indicating that page's special status and a chance to
> login or register.
> 
> 
> The logic is straightforward. How much work this would be to add is
> an unknown, as is how much of a load increase it would add to the
> wiki-servers. I'm happy to contribute code if needed.
> 
> 
> (Blindingly simplistic ascii flow chart starts here)
> 
> User clicks edit tab
>       |
>       |
>       V
> Is user logged in ? ---->  YES ---> allow edit
>       |
>      NO
>       |
>       V
> Redirect to a special message page
>       |
>       |-----> user logs in ------>  allow edit
>       |
>       |-----> user registers ---->  allow edit
>       |
>       V
> All others choices are the user using the normal wiki or browser
> navigation features to go somewhere else. (BACK, Search etc..)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'm new to this list, if this has been discussed before please
> disregard.
> 
> 
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