WikiIndex talk:Real names

Ted, :-)

• There are three ways to participate on a wiki:
• There are three ways to be identified when editing a wiki:

More of our (diff) on this subject! :-) MarkDilley | talk

Semanitics, maybe? I can either read or edit. Those are the two ways to participate, methinks. If I want to read, I don't need to identify myself at all. If I want to edit, that's when this RealNames page comes into play, yes? TedErnst | talk 21:28, 5 Mar 2006 (EST)

Mabye, I will give it a try:

Maybe it is sematics. I can read this wiki or I can participate at this wiki by editing. (is reading particiaption?) If I want to read, I don't need to identify myself at all. (except there is some identification in the logging of IP addresses) If I want to participate in the wiki, that's when RealNames comes into play.

I am extremely interested in sematics, I admit it and am guilty of it :-). MarkDilley | talk

IP addresses are logged on every website, in some way. I know I don't have access to the logs for WikiIndex. Do you? Yet when someone edits, that information is public, available to all. So back to the word "participate." If someone comes here from Buffy and the Goblet of Fire wiki and edits our entry for that wiki, is that participation? It might be, if there's some kind of dialogue on the talk page, but it also might not be. It might just be a fly-by edit, fixing an error, adding value in whatever way. I hear that you want people to participate, but not everyone that edits is participating, the way I see it. And it's not the participation that triggers this choice of 3 you've presented on RealNames, it's the editing. I think. TedErnst | talk 22:43, 5 Mar 2006 (EST)