From: Steve W. <sw...@pa...> - 2001-09-17 17:28:43
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Jeff Dairiki wrote: > I think it was Reini who, some time ago, suggested a couple of ideas: > 1. Append-only pages. > 2. Partially locked pages --- only the part after the first <hr> > ("--------" ) > can be edited. (Except by the page owner, of course.) > Both seem like clean solutions to the partial locking problem. (Of > course > they are of limited use until user authentication is implemented more > completely.) I think it's inevitable that we have append-only mode. It will have many uses. > Which brings us to user authentication. > > I recently had an idea: require every registered user to have a > WikiHomepage. > The user's userid would be the same as the pagename of their homepage. > This accomplishes several things: > 1. Each user has a homepage (which would be linked to from > RecentChanges, etc..) > My guess is that most on wikis with authenticated users, each of > the > authenticated users would have a WikiHomepage with personal > thoughts, > contact information, etc. in any case. > 2. We could store the users meta-data (password, e-mail, etc...) as > part of > their homepages meta-data. This eliminates the need for a > separate > user database. Hmm. As a serialized string? You might want to expand on this. I think the idea of them having a home page on the wiki is a natural. > Disadvantages: Somewhat kludgy, perhaps. Somewhat restrictive: if a > pagename > already exists, one must somehow usurp it (perhaps with admin > assistance ?) > to use it as a userid. > > Is this a crackpot idea or a stroke of genious? Like I said, it just seems like a natural. I would use SteveWainstead or just 'wainstead' as an ID and would want my name to hyperlink to a page about me. What I would really like to see added is user registration, where users must have a valid email address to register with the Wiki. This would be useful for a public wiki that only allows members to edit pages, and guests can only browse. In corporate intranets this would be essential. ~swain --- http://www.panix.com/~swain/ "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." -- Frank Zappa http://pgp.document_type.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF7323BAC |