[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia: the Journal

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/13/2009 2:14:35 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
bluecaliocean at me.com writes:


> The "letter" of releasing Mediawiki to the  
> public mean anyone can use it for any purpose, but the "spirit"  
> dictates that if you don't intend to have people edit it in a  
> "Wikipedia-style" fashion (ie We assume good faith here, so you start  
> out with these editing privileges), then you need to go elsewhere.>>

I dont' agree with this feeling unless you mean "people" in a loose way.
I don't want *anyone* to edit my own wiki.  I encourage people to do so, 
but I will also block certain articles to signed-in users only, or block 
others to myself only.

I think that's my right as owner of my own wiki.

I would even encourage people who simply want to use the wiki to do simple 
mark-up.  I mean want easier way to migrate into full HTML than using 
Mediawiki?  What are the alternatives?  I haven't seen one that makes it quite so 
easy.

I would however like a per-article option to *not save revisions*.  Some 
articles just don't benefit from revision history.

Will Johnson