I would like to see something like this...the more options for swiki
authorization, the better I think.  Everything from completely private,
invitation only participation to completely open, anything goes should
be supported.  Then individual Swiki administrators can decide what's
best for their Swikis.

- Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Bijan Parsia
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:34 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Different solution to Swiki control
> 
> 
> I'd love to see something like advogato's trust metric 
> implemented on Swikis (indeed, I shall be doing something 
> similar, soonish, I hope :)).
> 
> There's a very nice python implemention (pymmetry).
> 
> The basic idea is that various members of the community would 
> "certify" each other, at various levels. Only people with a 
> certain rating could perform certain activities (say, modify 
> the front page, upload files, etc.). We'd have a "seed" of 
> three or four people from whom the trust would flow.
> 
> We could even modify things a little so that 
> uncertified/random edits get submitted to a pool of trusted 
> volunteers for moderation/approval.
> 
> Pymmetry:
> 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/pymmetry
> 
> Advogato seems down for the moment :)
> 
> Trust metrics how to:
> 	http://www.levien.com/free/tmetric-HOWTO.html
> 
> Either wrapping the C code, or porting it (or the python) 
> code shouldn't be a tough job, and modifying the Swiki 
> accordingly is straightforward.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan Parsia.
> 
> 
>