[Flightgear-devel] Wiki information; Was: ProFlightSimulator "The Most Realistic

[Martin S. <Mar...@mg...>]

Gijs de Rooy wrote:

> [...] Luckily, we can add usergroups at the wiki and assign permissions to them. Thus, important
> pages can be locked (on the edit part) for the ordinary users. We've been doing this with all Newsletters, which
> can be edited only by wiki-admins after their publicication. We could create various groups, and people can be
> within multiple groups at once."

Actually a rather good idea, but I think it's still open to abuse.

According to _my_ experience, on the Wiki as well as on the forum,
quite a few people are so much obstinate, they simply don't care about
wether some topic is already covered with valid information or not,
they still do everything to spread their opinions (which includes
getting insolent).

As an example quite simple, just think of the multitude of Wiki
articles we had on building Scenery.  Fortunately nowadays most of them
have been collapsed into just a few remaining articles (many thanks
Gijs !!!), but before we saw people creating new articles entirely from
scratch even though over 2/3 of their information was already covered
in existing articles (plus probably 15 % being technically incorrect). 

It's just that easy creating a new article.  Therefore I'm not
convinced that locking individual articles is seriously going to avoid
abuse.

Best regards,
	Martin.
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 Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
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