[Foundation-l] Rollbackersaurus attacks en.wiki

Sun Jan 13 06:23:25 UTC 2008

On Jan 13, 2008 12:19 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > This is true. At OmegaWiki we do not have a problem with a difference
> > between admin and users because there is no difference. People are trusted
> > from the start. One implication is that because it is trust that is given,
> > it is losing the trust that does allow taking the admin bits away. So far
> > there has been no problem at all with this. Indeed the biggest benefit is
> > that we do have much less of a problem with vandals.
> Perhaps the difference may be that OmegaWiki has an active policy of
> assuming good faith.

No. It means they assume people will do bad until they approve them,
after that they are all equally trusted.

At one point their mediawiki changes had no revision control which
made that fairly necessary. I don't know if thats still the case.