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Originally Posted by SilverStar
Just one caution:
I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but if there is a FIRST Wiki, only registered users should be able to contribute. I was looking through the Wikipedia logs and there are so many bad users that randomly vandalize/delete pages.
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I disagree. Completely. The reason that such projects as Wikipedia have been succesful is the lack of required registration. The aim is to lower the threshold requried to give information, not raise it. Someone can delete the *text* on a page ... but another person can restore it from the archives. And if a certain IP address presents a continuing problem, it can be banned from editing for a while. See
here (though their servers seem to still be suffering from strain). The wiki concept succeeds because it is open ... close it, or at least make it less open and it will not flourish as easily.