Re: [libreoffice-website] [Wiki] Making first contribution handy

I think they should all be flagged pending review. I think here is where a
wiki / documentation team comes in handy to focus on this stuff. also why
not use the flagged revisions in conjunction with the captcha for login?

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Florian Effenberger <
floeff@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Friedrich Strohmaier wrote on 2012-10-13 01:58:
>
> > 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
>
> actually, I do see two issues here:
>
> First, anything that's in the wiki *will* be put into the database and can
> *not* be reliably deleted anymore. So, by this approach, I expect the usual
> number of bots to create the page, spamming our database.
>
> The second issue is that we would need to code that ourselves, since I am
> not aware of an extension that provides this feature.
>
> Sorry for being sceptical here, but I feel this is - at least for the wiki
> - a wrong appraoch...
>
> FlaggedRevisions might be a good idea, but then, I still don't feel
> comfortable, because the "non-flagged" pages are still wasting space in our
> database and the user directory, so my preference is to filter already at
> user creation level.
>
> Florian
>
> Florian
>
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