[WikiEN-l] Offline submissions?

[SJ]

On 6/26/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why not the talk page? In the beginning at least, it seems quite
> feasible simply to append tags like:
>
> ==Incoming email 26/6/06==
> From: <some mangling of email address>
> <text.............>
>
> Then people could deal with that text in the normal ways, adding
> comments as to whether they think it's worth including etc. What's the
> downside?

I like this idea a lot.

> > Accreditation in history would be a problem if the one
> > who submitted the ticket wants credit. Some may not
>
> True. Maybe at first simply deny them that opportunity? Or you know,
> in the edit summary you could always put the source so it's not
> *totally* lost.

Not hard to provide accreditatoin; it wouldn't show up in history,
it's true.  but there's a more general issue of
user-login/validatoin-abstraction to be dealt with there.  Edit
summary is fine, for moral and gfdl purposes.

SJ