Re: why is the wiki locked?

[Pawel Kot]

Hi,

On 1/12/07, Ingo Schaefer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 12.01.2007, 00:51 +0000 schrieb t scytale:
> > it seems kind of pointless to use collaborative software to lock
> > everyone out.
>
> It seems so.
>
> > many other open source projects have very successful
> > wikis that are not locked - why do the gnokii developers feel that
> > their users have less to contribute?
>
> They don't feel so.
>
> Every user who wants to participate can create an account in the wiki
> and request "write" permissions. Pawel usually grants this. Suggestions
> for changes can be directed to this list, too.
>
> Problem are the lots of spammers on the way, which can create a really
> messy wiki which is hard to cleanup.
>
> I assume the other projekts have enough people to cleanup the wiki every
> day. The gnokii project has enough people to keep the project running,
> but not much more.

Well said. It is exactly as Ingo says. Nothing more to add.

take care,
pkot
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Pawel Kot