MediaWiki instead of Trac Wiki?

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:15:21PM -0500, Josh Sled wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:59 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> >    b) Spectrum goes:
> >       1) no user edits; only moderators edit/add new mods
> >       2) same as 1) w/ webform for requesting write-access. (manual approval)
> >       3) same as 2) but with CAPTCHA, email callback and automatic approval 
> >       4) same as 3) but without CAPTCHA
> >       5) same as 4) but with no email verification
> >       6) anonymous edits
> 
> We've been talking (in IRC) about somewhere between (2) and (3) ...
> specifically: anyone can create an account via the wiki, but it comes
> w/o edit privs; sysops will then add the edit perm to accounts
> individually.

Now a question unrelated to my main point...

Assuming no account is needed to *read* content, what possible
incentive is there to create an account that has no edit privilege?
It lets me read under my own username?  Is it a dirty trick?

Unless I misunderstand, this just won't work.

-chris