[Haskell-cafe] Re: Wiki user accounts

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> Anyone else? Gwern? Philippa?

As usual, I am User:Gwern.

On the side-topic of a mailing list - I really think that is too
heavy-weight. We want people to create a login (for the ML) and go
through the ML, just to get wiki access?

A view I've long held is that wikis only work because they are easy to
contribute to. When you ask someone for a favor, you don't make them
jump through hoops. Even trivial extra steps cut down the # of people
willing to do it.

There must be methods that put as little a burden on eager would-be
newbie editors. Just posting the emails of people with
account-creation abilities is the easiest way I can think of.

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gwern
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