Hi all,<br><br>It's my first time posting, although I've been reading for some time now.<br><br>I agree with Peter, give a try and see how it goes. It'd be good to have information based in some central searchable place. The group member area sounds like a great idea too.
<br><br>Get something up there and see what it becomes.<br><br>-- <br> <br>James Timbrell<br><br><a href="mailto:james.timbrell@gmail.com">james.timbrell@gmail.com</a><br>uk phone: 0121 288 6680<br>uk fax: 0870 051 0758<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 20/08/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tony Whitmore</b> <<a href="mailto:phpwm@tonywhitmore.co.uk">phpwm@tonywhitmore.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Phil Beynon wrote:<br>>> David Goodwin wrote:<br>>>> Hi,<br>>>><br>>>> Do people think a wiki (not open to anonymous edits/updates) would be<br>>>> useful for the group?<br>>> Why have it restricted in this way? It does kinda fly against the ethos
<br>>> of wikis.<br>>><br>>> Tony<br>><br>> Probably because like so many others it will sadly get spammed and abused to<br>> obliteration once detected if its open to all!<br><br>That shows poor or inadequate spam protection rather than anything else.
<br>IME wikis that require logins suffer from reduced activity and quickly<br>become outdated. What a wiki should have is some decent anti-spam<br>protection and some active moderators. I'd put our HantsLUG wiki and the<br>
infopoint wiki up as examples.<br><br>Tony<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Phpwm mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk">Phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/phpwm">
https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/phpwm</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br> <br>James Timbrell<br><br>email: <a href="mailto:james@timbrell.com">james@timbrell.com</a><br>website: <a href="http://timbrell.com">
http://timbrell.com</a><br>uk phone: 0121 288 6680<br>uk fax: 0870 051 0758