[maemo-community] No more anonymous edits

[From: Simon Pickering]

On 10/02/2011 09:15, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:09, Thomas Perl<th.perl at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 2011/2/10 Simon Pickering<S.G.Pickering at bath.ac.uk>:
>>>
>>> Didn't we have a rule of no anonymous creates/edits in the past?
>
> Probably. But if it's something wikipedia can support, why can't we?

We have fewer editors (as in those who will look at changes and make a 
decision as to whether the changes are valid or spam) would be my 
initial suggestion, but I really don't know.

>>> I've got to say that I can't really see why it's unfriendly to make people
>>> log in before they make edits. It's useful to be able to track who's made a
>>> change, and I can't see why the person making the change will be unhappy to
>>> announce who they are by being logged in.
>
> The argument had before (which ISTR persuaded me) was making small
> trivial changes without an account is a gateway into becoming more
> involved.

I can understand that argument, but as most of the info on maemo.org is 
very specific to the Maemo devices, and I'm assuming that most people 
who are interested and engaged with Maemo (and therefore potentially 
knowledgeable enough to make alterations to a page) will have logins.

Cheers,


Simon