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

[Adam Chlipala]

Michael Olson wrote:

>rob at hcoop.net writes:
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>>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.
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>Signing up is an extra, and unnecessary, step for making changes like
>the ones I mentioned.  It will definitely turn away people who would
>be likely to make the kind of edits that I described.
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>So why make things unnecessarily harder?  Write-protect just the one
>darn FrontPage to prevent egg-on-face kind of spam, and be done with
>it!
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I think your campaign of getting an even more extreme alternative 
suggested has been successful in making the original look better. ;)

Anyone still opposed to requiring log-in for the FrontPage only?