Comments on: UEB: Putting The U In Web

By: Rory

Rory — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:51:29 +0000

Spam has been a problem for most major wikis for a while. I don’t think and edit button would make it much worse.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:53:34 +0000

I think that websites and browsers must implement and use some generic website editing prorocol like Atom Publishing Protocol.

P.S.:

«UEB» is very funny for every russian reader of your blog. See http://www.russki-mat.net/e/U.htm

By: Matt Ryall

Matt Ryall — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:18:51 +0000

I’m with you on the rel and type arguments for the link too, and proposed them originally on the suggestions page. Here’s my post on the subject:

http://www.mattryall.net/article.cgi?id=312

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:08:03 +0000

@Steven: I definitely disagree with your statement that “Spam has never been a problem that actually brought a wiki to its knees”. I’ve come across one wiki in my time that had a very small community and their wiki had been overrun by spam forcing them to lock down edits to only registered users. That said, I agree that spam is not a huge threat (and is an existing threat today, so UEB will hardly make matters considerably worse).

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:59:21 +0000

I think the spammer concern is vastly overstated. Spam has never been a problem that actually brought a wiki to its knees; it’s much easier and quicker to undo spam than it is to create it, and that there are additional protections you can enact on any wiki to protect from spammers. Wiki communities have always done a great job of taking care of their space, large and small. Not only that, but spammers are dumb. They think no one notices their edits, and they can hardly figure out how format external links, much less do real damage.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:12:30 +0000

The button’s not a bad idea. I can’t see it increasing wiki contributions from new users that much though – I think most contributions on the web happen because of an blank text box next to a ‘submit’ button. Just like RSS though, if the button lights up then people who already know what it is may use it more.

I’m with you on the chrome & MIME type ideas. How does one arrive at the idea that ‘wiki’ is a content-type?