2009/12/12 Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> > 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. >
Umm I'm a non-member, well past member who is no longer financial and believe my editing status has been changed........ > > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > -- GN. http://gnangarra.redbubble.com/
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