Re: [Wikimediaau-l] pre-proposal proposal

2012-11-29 Thread Angela
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Peter Musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a pre-proposal proposal for a modest change to the WMAU wiki - I'd like to suggest a trial of completely open registrations I think this would lead to tons of spam and a few confused users. There have only been

[Wikimediaau-l] pre-proposal proposal

2012-11-28 Thread Peter Musings
Hi all, Here's a pre-proposal proposal for a modest change to the WMAU wiki - I'd like to suggest a trial of completely open registrations - ie. allow anyone so inclined to create an account without any approval required, and edit away. Perhaps editing of the homepage, and associated templates

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] pre-proposal proposal

2012-11-28 Thread Mark Hurd
The current situation is almost the free for all you request, except that 99% of the non-spam requests are really for editing Wikipedia, not Wikimedia Australia. -- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) On 29 November 2012 12:39, Peter Musings thepmacco...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Here's a

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] pre-proposal proposal

2012-11-28 Thread Peter Musings
If we start to get edits on the chapter wiki which would be more appropriate for another project, it'd be nice to engage a little with these people, I think, it's an appropriate role for the chapter, I reckon. Seems to me that even the relatively low bar of having to request an account isn't

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] pre-proposal proposal

2012-11-28 Thread Liam Wyatt
This is certainly a reason for the status quo (I'm not saying it's a good or bad reason, just that it is one that is true) but from recollection the *primary* reason we locked editing when first creating the Chapter's Wiki was as an incentive for membership of the Chapter. We quickly realised that