[libreoffice-website] [Wiki] Making first contribution handy (was: Signup Captcha enabled)

Hi Florian, *,

Am 10.10.2012 11:46 schrieb Florian Effenberger:
> Rainer Bielefeld wrote on 2012-10-10 09:31:

> > My concerns written on "[libreoffice-website] Re: Does wiki want to come
> > out and play? - Problem - ReCaptcha" still exist.

> the alternative is to close down self-creation of accounts completely,
> and only create them on request.

From my point of view there is more than one alternative :o)).

In short:
1. We want (new) contributors contribute without hassles
2. We don't want spammer's contributions

We could solve that through changing the workflow (this is not a quick
solution though):
- Make the "edit" button visible for all visitors.
- Check the authorization of the editor while saving (if not logged in).
- offer a simple account creation method: "Enter Your mailadress here -
  we will contact You. Your *first* contribution will be approved before
  beeing published"
- send the *publishing request* to the moderators/wiki admins.
- after approval send "Your contribution has been approved and published
  <link>" mail to the contributor

Several advantages:
- Very low barrier for the first contribution
- attract Contributors who turn away even beeing faced with a captcha
- The approvers can see and estimate *the contribution* while deciding
  to approve or discard the request.
- The contributor has human contact and we (humans) can contact the
  contributor :o))
- one more simple task (easy hack) to participate the project in a
  helpful way.

Disadvantage:
- more work to filter the *first contributions*

This is just a rough edge draft of how it could be done the "community
way".


Gruß/regards

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