[Foundation-l] User Rights

Thu Jun 17 23:31:49 UTC 2004

Corey Burger (cburger at victoria.tc.ca) [040618 08:21]:

> The thought about editors got me thinking about User rights while
> still maintaining a wiki. So here is my proposal, for all to bash:
> Key Rights:
> Anons will always be able to edit existing article, period
> User name rights:
> Users can always edit pages
> After (a period of time, I choose an arbitrary one say 1 week), users can
> move pages and create new pages
> Thus Anons cannot move or create new pages, which from my New Page watch
> would probably be a good thing.

I know a few users who started by creating a page, because they knew
something about something that didn't have an article. Generally as an
anon user. Why should they bother waiting a week? What's in it for them?

- d.