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.
--
pickle
OpenGuide to Glasgow Admin