You should require accounts. Further, you should have them controlled by an admin or moderator. Otherwise any script kiddie at a cafe in Bangladesh could clobber the content.
On 2009-09-16, Mark Post <mp...@novell.com> wrote: > Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main > > The idea of having a Wiki (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wiki) for > mainframe Linux and z/VM has been floating around for some time. It was > thought that having a Wiki with a fair amount of content already in it would > help it reach a "critical mass" of usability far sooner than might otherwise > happen. A fair amount of behind-the-scenes work has been done over the last > couple of years to make that happen, without much success. > > So, I've decided to take a different approach. With the assistance of > Marist College (and Velocity Software who owns the domain name), I've put up > a Wiki at http://wiki.linuxvm.org/wiki/ for people to contribute content. > We'll see how things go from here to determine if it's worth keeping or not. > > There are a few rules, for lack of a better term, that will apply to the > Wiki, none of them particularly onerous: > 1. Although technically not required, we would prefer that anyone > contributing to the wiki create an account before doing so. > 2. Keep things civil and professional, both in the articles themselves, > as well as the discussion pages for them. > 3. Keep things accurate. We expect vendor-specific information to be > entered here (although we'd prefer to not have pricing details). But, any > exaggerated claims, vapor ware announcements and the like are subject to > summary deletion. > 4. Try to keep bias to a minimum. Everyone has their favorite > distribution or way of doing things. Try not to let others people's > preferences in those areas be cause for any Holy Wars [TM]. > 5. If you don't own the copyright to something, don't add it to the wiki. > 6. Use common sense in general. > > I hope that people find this useful, and are willing to contribute as they > are able. With any luck, it will become a valuable resource for everyone > that might become involved in running Linux on System z. > > > Thanks, > > Mark Post > -- Sent from my mobile device -- R; <><
