https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47812
--- Comment #7 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) <legoktm.wikipe...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to comment #5) > My reason for not originally implementing Group-user is basically a personal > philosophy, that I do not trust wiki communities (enwiki especially) to > *actually* remember the point above. "Logged in verses logged out" is > **not** > the same as "readers verses editors", and as such, I felt (and still feel) > that > this feature had *only* misuses, not legitimate uses. If this was made > available as the only way of cleanly leveraging one of these distinctions, it > would be used as "well this is the best we've got", but it's use would > actually > be quite detrimental to the wiki's openness. Agreed, some people probably will misuse it. That said, I don't think we should limit the software in a way like this. If you have a fishbowl wiki, the distinction between readers and editors *is* whether you're logged in or not. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
