[HCoop-Discuss] Proposal to make Wiki frontpage read-only

[rob at hcoop.net]

> bkhl at hcoop.net (Björn Lindström) writes:
>
>> Michael Olson <mwolson at hcoop.net>:
>>
>>> Going this far, I am against. Anonymous posters could still
>>> contribute useful technical information to our wiki, such as sample
>>> configurations for software.
>>
>> Are there any examples of this actually happening?
>
> Perhaps not, but I can think of several possible plausible scenarios.
>
>  - The maintainer of a program searches the net for references to the
>    program, finds our page, and adds a few useful pointers.  I would
>    definitely do this if I found a wiki page on Emacs Muse somewhere.
>
>  - A security researcher does a quick survey via a search engine for
>    the name of some software and a version number, where the software
>    at this version has a vulnerability of some sort at a user-setup
>    level, rather than an administrative level.  He or she finds our
>    page and adds a warning about ways of using a certain configuration
>    directive.
>
>  - Someone follows a "Hosted by HCoop" link from one of our members'
>    webpages, sees some spelling errors, and wants to correct them.  He
>    or she has not decided whether to bother with joining yet, since
>    they have a website hosted elsewhere already, but can sympathize
>    with our project.
>


So, nothing is stopping them from signing up to commit changes to our
wiki.  I'm of the opinion that if someone can't be bothered to go through
the step of creating an account prior to editing a page they don't have
anything meaningful to contribute.

If there is really this much resistence to this, perhaps we should put it
to vote?  That is what the voting system is used for right?