> It's my last attempt to save the Wiki. Sorry. What you explained made sense. If the daily edits could come in a digest, that might be better (IMO).
A completely different idea: What I've seen work really well is 1. Use forum software (like phpbb, but you guys would probably lean toward a Perl-based forum). 2. Use multiple anti-spambot techniques to join the forum (custom Q&A, Captcha and Akismet). 3. "Newly Registered Users" have their first 5 posts approved by a moderator. 4. After 10-20 posts, add users to a "wiki editors" group. 5. Tie the Wiki's authentication to the forum's authentication, and based upon whether the user is a member of the "wiki editors" group. The nice thing about that is it keeps the readers closer to the wiki. Long-standing readers can be made moderators to help with approving new user posts. And, forums are a little more conducive to discussion than email. Maybe that would be overkill for 315 participants. Or, maybe it would elicit more participants? (I know I tend to skip mailing-list groups in favor of forums.). Mark ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
