[Wikipedia-l] Locking small wikis

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Sat Nov 6 22:27:33 UTC 2004


Perhaps, as Andre suggested, we could limit them to editing by
logged-in users only?

In addition, I would be very happy to keep an eye on such an RC, an
example of one such arrangement already existing for all Indic
Wikipedias can be found at: http://www.bloglines.com/public/Wikimedia

Mark

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 04:33:14 -0800, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> I support this.  I wish that there was a "softer" way to do it, but as
> their isn't at the moment, this is the best alternative I think.
> 
> By "softer" I mean some settings like "no external links" and "no anon
> edits" and perhaps "new accounts require email confirmation" and "all
> edits require captcha solution".  Also, something like "tiny wiki
> combined RC" -- if people would enjoy keeping an eye on these.
> 
> Those sorts of measures would leave us be more aggressive about
> leaving things open.
> 
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