- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:19:04 -0500
- To: Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>
- Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, public-esw@w3.org
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 05:42, Graham Klyne wrote: > On the matter of control... > > I thought that one of the features of a wiki system is that it's backed by > CVS, so that if someone comes along and defaces the site, or makes other > undesirable modifications, there's an opportunity to back out the > changes. Selectively. Isn't that enough? It's enough to prevent things from being lost forever, but the work of doing the restoration (and noticing that it needs doing) remains. The good news is: it allows *anybody* to do that restoration, not just a select few overworked editors or administrators. The other good news is: once the community has a certain critical mass, the opportunity/obligation to edit things that one disagrees with can turn into endorsement of pages that are not edited. (cf http://esw.w3.org/topic/WikiConsensus) (Note that the revision control behind the ESW wiki is a combination of MoinMoin's built-in file-based history, which the general public has access to, and a separate cron job that periodically copies stuff into W3C's CVS repository for more stable backup.) -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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