[maemo-users] Anonymous wiki edits: disable NOW (please)

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Monday 23 June 2008 08:28:46 Dave Neary wrote:
> Ryan Abel wrote:
> > On Jun 21, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> >> I don't see *any* harm in requiring an account to edit this wiki, the
> >> aims are much more focused than Wikipedia, and people should be
> >> getting karma anyway.
> >
> > Done, but it's only a 24 hour block. Will have to be discussed further.
>
> I strongly support disabling anonymous edits.

Me too.  However, is it the case that, nowadays (or planned for the future), 
you need a garage account?  If so, that might put off some non-developers 
(for example in the user community) from contributing, which would be a 
problem.  We know, from earlier discussions, that some users do not like 
having to create new accounts at all, but particularly in non-user-friendly, 
developer-oriented systems.

If the Wiki and garage are linked in this way, we need to make it very clear 
that creating a garage account is not only for developers.  Preferably 
providing a simple form on the wiki site which will create the necessary 
garage account.

Graham