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== higher level edit policy ==

This scheme is actually not very good.  Among other things it doesn't deal with the higher level edit policy questions.  Who really cares if all editors are required to sign up for a [[throwaway handle]] under an [[obvious troll name]], or worse, a [[seemingly real name]]?  This doesn't matter at all.  It matters far more if a [[valid email required]], but not much, if that valid email can be from a throwaway supplier of same like hotmail.

Probably this "mode" stuff needs to expand into [[:category:wiki_edit_policy]] (kill the bad use of capital letters please, it isn't English).  It's far more important to know if, like [[Consumerium]], the wiki has [[troll-friendly]] policies (not just [[open edit]], but also [[no outing]], [[no witchhunt]], [[no ad hominem revert]], [[no out of process delete]] or [[only spam deleted]], etc.).  It says a lot if the administrators go around, as they do on Wikipedia, and try to kill every single link to "[[sysop vandalism]]", etc..

Wiki moderation capability varies very widely, and many wiki administrators are very very stupid.  The vast majority of wikis are killed by arbitrary and capricious behaviour that convinces willing editors that their work won't be respected, and no one cares to consult them on important changes to policy.  The flipside of wiki is that while you get free open content contributed, the contributors will disappear if you don't cut the right balance between redirecting out-of-scope concerns elsewhere and letting the contributors decide, or if you don't cut the right balance between pleasing the old trolls and helping new ones.  '''(Unsigned, 142.177.72.113, 22:33, 4 March 2007)'''