Peter (Halasz), um... your last post is probably not helpful. I happen to agree with you that it is a good idea to make the chapter Wiki more open to editing. However, this is a discussion about the validity/importance/appropriateness of doing so and making inflammatory statements risks you falling foul of 'godwins law' and, by corollary, losing automatically. :-)
This discussion here has heard from people who are members, elected committee and lapsed members, but I think we've yet to hear from anyone who is not a member as to whether they would be more willing to be involved with chapter activities. I would like to point to the UK chapter's "water cooler<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Water_cooler>" as an example of the kind of active conversations that I think the Chapter should be hosting on our "Billabong <http://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Billabong>" - which is where this whole discussion started from. I note with interest that they recently had a discussion on that page about whether their wiki should allow IP editing or not. Could any non-members who are following this discussion please pipe up, as, all current discussants are members and by definition are already allowed to edit and therefore any change wouldn't affect them very much. In any case, I have added to the agenda of the forthcoming committee meeting an item about whether we should change editing rights. -Liam [[witty lama]] wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Angela <bees...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure why there's an assumption that edits by members are > trustworthy (and edits by others are not). Since anyone can become a > member, it's not reasonable to expect none of them will ever do > anything bad on the wiki. And you're going to have a problem blocking > them from the wiki if editing that is supposed to be something that > they've been promised in return for their membership fee - do you want > to have to give back their money if you find you need to block them? A > better option might be to protect important pages and be quick to > block problem users. > > Angela > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l >
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