Some ability to throttle of the rate of edits is probably a good idea (to hinder WikiVandalismDiscussion). Eg
- for a given page, no more than N edits per ip address per day, hour, 5 minutes, minute. Not suited to my editing style, unless there's a preview function available. Also, I don't think this would have any effect - a vandal would only need one edit to be effective. --GG
- for the whole wiki, ditto. More suitable, I think, would be to limit the number of pages changed in a certain time (not the number of edits). --GG
- for certain pages and/or the whole wiki, edits require a valid cookie, which is at least a week old and has not been revoked (means storing a db of cookies I think) (cf CliffordAdams on AreWriteRestrictionsHarmful)
- for certain pages, edits must be approved by another user before taking effect
- put sensitive pages in safe classicwiki mode (boo! confusing :| )
A parallel login scheme including cookies could confer greater edit privileges, perhaps. Either prove, from previous history, that you're trustworthy, or use some other (probably less scalable) scheme to approve users. --GG