On Fri, January 27, 2012 12:19 pm, Greg Newby wrote:
I favor some sort of meritocracy-based system for getting access to such elevated levels of responsibility.
I favor a democratic-based system where everyone gets all access until they are "voted off the island." If you have a version control system in place you will loose nothing if someone attempts vandalism. There might be some inconvenience involved in backing out changes, but the resulting innovation and vigorous participation will more than make up for it. One should not have to prove one's competence, one should have to prove one's incompetence. Contributors should have to register with a system that at least validates that they control a specific e-mail address. IP addresses for changes should be tracked. If a user consistently violates the rules (remember the rules?), revoke his/her commit privileges. If Wiki wars break out, call in the benevolent dictator. Less bureaucracy is a good thing.