Swiki locked

John Hinsley johnhinsley at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Jul 16 23:55:48 UTC 2002


On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 10:12 pm, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:41:07 -0400
>
> Stephen Pair <spair at advantive.com> wrote:
> > I wonder if this problem could ultimately be solved using some sort of
> > web of trust relationships?  Here's how it might work:
> >
> >   - when a Swiki is created, the creator is issued a key that can be
> > used to edit the Swiki
> >   - others that would like to edit the Swiki can only do so by
> > requesting a key from someone that already has a key (initially just he
> > creator, but soon, there would be many people with keys)
> >   - any key could be traced all the way back to the creator of the Swiki
> >   - any key can be revoked at any time, eliminating the possibility of
> > that key being used to edit the Swiki
>
> Maybe the Advogato trust system can be a good source of inspiration :
> http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html

The main problem I see with this (and the moderation system proposed by 
Andreas) is that ComSwiki is, par excellence, an exportable project. 

Ideally, we'd keep it as simple as possible, and keep it self contained.

I'll try and look at some code (but ComSwiki's code isn't the easiest to 
follow!) tomorrow.

In the meantime, maybe JE77 will jump to the rescue? (puts hands together, 
says prayer to the great God Unix.....)

Cheers

John




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