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::Kind of defeats the objective of a wiki (in my view) - this is all about user generated content. The main defence against spam that GTW has is not allowing unregistered users to edit the site - meaning we can track and easily block everybody, and those people who only want to casually cause trouble can't be bothered to register. I think the merge would be a good idea as GTW has an established (but small) user base of regularly-contributing users, and some experienced wiki admins - something I would presume WikiGTA lacks om the English department at the moment. Out of interest, what restrictions does WikiGTA have on editing? - [[User:Xenon|Xenon]] 19:28, 29 March 2007 (BST) | ::Kind of defeats the objective of a wiki (in my view) - this is all about user generated content. The main defence against spam that GTW has is not allowing unregistered users to edit the site - meaning we can track and easily block everybody, and those people who only want to casually cause trouble can't be bothered to register. I think the merge would be a good idea as GTW has an established (but small) user base of regularly-contributing users, and some experienced wiki admins - something I would presume WikiGTA lacks om the English department at the moment. Out of interest, what restrictions does WikiGTA have on editing? - [[User:Xenon|Xenon]] 19:28, 29 March 2007 (BST) | ||
:::WikiGTA evolved from the previous (non-wiki) walkthrough at our forums. We only use the wiki-software because it's easy to edit for all our editors, and not because we want everyone be able to edit it. Yes, that's not the general idea of a wiki, but that wasn't our goal to begin with. The Dutch GTA-articles on Wikipedia are an absolute mess; we're trying to prevent that on WikiGTA. That's why we currently only except known users from our forums as editors. I'm not saying this won't change in the future, but it is how we run things at the moment. --[[User:Lantyz|Lantyz]] - WikiGTA crew 22:49, 29 March 2007 (BST) | :::WikiGTA evolved from the previous (non-wiki) walkthrough at our forums. We only use the wiki-software because it's easy to edit for all our editors, and not because we want everyone be able to edit it. Yes, that's not the general idea of a wiki, but that wasn't our goal to begin with. The Dutch GTA-articles on Wikipedia are an absolute mess; we're trying to prevent that on WikiGTA. That's why we currently only except known users from our forums as editors. I'm not saying this won't change in the future, but it is how we run things at the moment. --[[User:Lantyz|Lantyz]] - WikiGTA crew 22:49, 29 March 2007 (BST) | ||
::I can understand that - but GTW has enough basic structure and policy to stop it becoming a mess, even with significantly more editors. There are a lot of people here who know how the place works, and I personally have a lot of experience dealing with online security and site management. Also, I notice that GTAForum.nl has a topic about GTW in its staff area - I hope nobody's saying bad things about us :) [[User:Xenon|Xenon]] 18:06, 30 March 2007 (BST) | |||