[Vim-l] login policy

[Sebastian Menge]

Hi Luc and everyone.

I was on honeymoon and didn't care for the wiki since about a month ...
Sorry for that.

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, hermitte at free.fr wrote:
> I was wondering what you where thinking about forcing people to log in before
> permitting any changes?
>
> Today policy is just to log the IP and ... that's all. The consequences are:
> - we may forget to log in before doing any modification (it happened to me a
> couple of times)
> - we cannot contact the author of a modification
>
> After the login creation page, we can remind the new user how to create a new
> tip (about the {{vimtip}} template, the categories, ...)

Your points are correct. I also forgot to login sometimes. But to force
logging in is against the wiki philosophy: If ppl want to leave just a
small comment for a tip or fix a typo, registration would be a burden
many wont take.

If spamming gets too much (and remember, we chose wikia because they have
good spam detection techniques) we should do what you propose.

I would propose to leave things as they are, and observe the commits for
some time, then decide whether anonymous guys do more contributions than
spam.

> -- a new tip has been
> added this week end [1] but I'm afraid nobody will ever see it as it does not
> respect the implicit chart of this particular wiki.

Sorry,  I don't understand what you mean by implicit chart?

Sebastian