IvorW wrote:
Earle Martin wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 02:38:19AM +0200, IvorW wrote:
I have a radical proposal. The basis of it is "What good is a default autocreated category or locale with no nodes?".
Since the answer is "not a lot", why don't we just delete them?
I've been thinking about a different approach. My alternative is to limit the selections allowed to pre-existing categories and locales. These are presented in a dropdown select list with "Add" and "Remove" buttons. There's no freeform textarea for spammers to type in pseudo categories.
The problem I see with this approach is that it would work for a well established guide such as London as the locales are already defined for the guide. In new guides, one of the advantages of using the openguides software (and the whole wiki idea in general) is that the admin of the guide doesn't need to decide what the locales and categories should be - they evolve with the rest of the wiki just like the common layout of information or naming conventions employed by each guide. The authors of the content come to a consensus.