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@kinz.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:21:34AM +0000, Zachary Harden wrote:
From: Ryan Norton wxprojects@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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