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Phroziac wrote:
On 8/25/05, Jeff Kinz jkinz@kinz.org wrote:
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.
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Sounds good, but it's super easy to register, and I will oppose all attempts to make registration difficult. ;)
I think a variety of meta-protection - pages which can only be edited by logged in users - would be very useful. Coupled with a solution for bug 550 (http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550), it would be very useful to stop blatant POV warring by new users. Encouraging people to register is undoubtably a Good Thing, because new users are very quickly welcomed and dealt with as needed.
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