From: Adam Bower Sent: 05 October 2005 09:19
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:47:39PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
We have had edits to our (HantsLUG) wiki from the USA and Sweden recently. The people who made those edits made valuable
contributions
to the site, but they're not on the mailing list.
I figure a 2 (or is this 3?) tier-system of having approved users with username/password who can do what they want. Then having "approved" users who have made (for example) 3 edits in the past that have been approved by a moderator (have a moderation feed via rss?) and work out who they are by cookies or hostname etc. Then have "unapproved" users who are welcome to edit the wiki but have to give an email address when editing, these edits will then be approved via the moderators using rss (if they so wish, the exact mechanism could be via a webpage and email too) then if the moderators recognise the email address, person, valid contribution etc. then they can whitelist further edits from this user?
You are then avoiding having to have any passwords (which are a pain to remember) but just using an email address to authenticate the user, which in this situation is *more* than good enough. If a user then "turned rogue" you just remove their email address from the list of users able to make edits.
sounds like it could work, like the idea of avoiding passwords via a whitlist of email addresses.
How much work is involved in the implementation?
Regards,
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