Mark Rages wrote: > On 5/31/05, James Newtons Massmind wrote: > >>>The code >>>pages at http://www.piclist.org are great since users can add >>>comments. It might be kinda interesting to have a pic code >>>wiki or CVS where users can contribute code, other users can >>>comment on it, remove bugs, make improvements, etc. >> >> >>What do you see as a difference between what piclist.org has and what a wiki >>or CVS would offer in terms of what would be useful to this code sharing / >>review / comment / etc... Process? >> > > > A wiki is less structured than piclist.com. Anyone can edit anything. Open wiki's are already going the way of the dodo bird. James' PicList.com setup where users have to be logged in is becoming much more common, with wiki-spam on the rise. My similar-to-a-wiki blogging software I run has to have posting moderation turned on and an automated spam filter set up to skim through every ten posts and remove any with certain keywords or from certain IP's, all downloaded from central servers updated by hundreds of people running the software to keep up with just allowing anonymous comments to non-anonymous posts. If it weren't for the automation I'd have shut it down long ago. Open wikis without moderators are going to die the slow painful death most of our Inboxes have over the last few years. (Ask your mail admin how many messages a day they throw out for you without you even knowing about it nowadays... my domain for just personal stuff is currently generating about 1500 spam messages a week... and at work... well, let's just say they're paying a commercial filtering company and they're not keeping up.) James is ahead of his time! (GRIN) Or just smarter than the average college student coding up wiki/blog-du-jour software who hasn't figured out that in the real world, idiots do things like spam in 100 messages into the wiki at a time that say vulgar and/or stupid things and/or advertise something utterly useless. Nate -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist