From: David Alan Black Date: 2004-05-10T19:18:57+09:00 Subject: Re: My favorite RCRs... Hi -- Answering both James and Jean-Hugues: Jean-Hugues ROBERT writes: > At 06:53 10/05/2004 +0900, James Britt wrote: > >Hal Fulton wrote: > >>This is just to stir things up a little. Go to rcrchive.net and vote > >>for/against the RCRs there. > > > >I just took a look (well, actually, I stopped by www.rcarchive.com first; > >quite entertaining), and ran into an interesting usability issue. > > > >The RCR pages invite you to comment on the requests; it's a wiki, after > >all, but it isn't until after one has loaded the edit page, entered > >well-considered (and carefully spell-checked) comments, and hit the Save > >button, that one discovers that a user name and password will be required. Unless you read the instructions :-) The welcome page of RCRchive says "If you want to add comments to them [RCRs], you must subscribe to RCRchive", with a link to the sign-up page. I guess I could add something later in the process too. > That must have been a not so nice experience. > > Is there any reason why a user/password is required? A lot of > Wikis don't need any and they work well I think. RCRchive is really only a Wiki by virtue of piggy-backing on (a hacked version of) RuWiki. It's not really conceived of as typically Wiki-esque. As for usernames: I really disliked all the anonymous posts on Ruby Garden. It was very hard to follow a discussion, and I didn't see any reason to duplicate that experience on RCRchive. I also like the idea of erecting at least a small barrier to entry, to discourage the ultra-casual level of participation (particularly as regards submitting RCRs, but also discussion). David -- David A. Black dblack@wobblini.net