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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Status Of Pdaxrom-wiki?
« on: December 28, 2004, 06:18:54 pm »Quote
I have just tested installation of mediawiki on my notebook and if you have lamp running it takes you only a few minutes for installation and for setting up permissions (with default theme) to give only certain users edit rights (it has a good documentation).Please keep in mind that the main principle of any public wiki is that ALL users should initally have rights to edit, even the anonymous ones. When you allow only certain people to post, you lose much more than you gain. For instance, almost ALL my edits in several wikis were anonymous, and in case it would have not been allowed, there would be no edits from my side, because I'm too lazy to register just to fix a couple of sentences. And so on. The main idea of wiki is that people generally mean good, not harm, so the less obstacles they get, the better.
It is easier to repair vandalized posts than to vandalize them, and if nobody cares about repairing, the wiki is of no interest to anybody anyway.