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# (a) a wiki where any random person can "register" with a user name and within minutes, without any human approval, immediately start to edit -- that's what LoginToEdit means, right ? -- vs.

# (b) a wiki where any random person can "register" with a user name, and after some human approves it (perhaps within a day or so), can start to edit, -- vs.

# (c) a wiki where only the Sysop and perhaps a few people the Sysop has selected ahead of time can edit, one that does not give any email address or other way for outsiders to register.

''The word "invitation" in "ByInvitation" implies (c). Type (c) and ReadOnly wiki are effectively the same, to outsiders like me.''

: no, when for example the database is locked at a [[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] wiki, I don't think sysops can edit it. (I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong) so when it's ReadOnly, no one can edit it (I think), but ByInvitation it's editable by eveyone, who been invited. (gee I'm not good at explaining stuff.) &ndash; [[Smiddle]] / <small>[[User talk:Smiddle|T]]&middot;[[Special:Contributions/Smiddle|C]]&middot;[[Special:Emailuser/Smiddle|@]]</small> 04:53, 9 December 2006 (EST)

:: We discussed all of this a long time ago, and if we didn't document well our thinking at the time, I suppose we're left with David's questions. :-)  Let me see if I can describe how I see things.  At first, we had many different categories the we eventually collapsed down to ByInvitation.  Definitely (a) above means LoginToEdit.  I'm almost certain that type (c) would be ReadOnly for us, because there's no way to know who's allowed to edit when you come upon a wiki like this.  All you can see is that there's no way to edit, no way to login and no way to register or apply for a login.  So that's how we've been using ReadOnly.  Smiddle's "lockdown" scenario isn't specifically addressed, but that would be ReadOnly as well.  We're currently using ByInvitation to mean any wiki where you have to register by some publically available means, and a human has to approve you.  If that needs some other name, feel free to propose one.  That would be fine with me, if ByInvitation isn't cutting it.  We discussed it for a long time, but I see no reason to change if there's a term that's more clear. [[TedErnst]] | <small>[[User talk:TedErnst|talk]]</small> 14:51, 9 December 2006 (EST)

I expect to find useful things here - not advertisers and spammers. By listing things like "[[OneBuckWiki]]" we only promote advertisment bullshit and help them making money! This doesn't help the users to find useful wikis. Instead we should for example have a useful structure (e.g. categorisation) that helps finding things here...--[[User:Speckmade|Speckmade]] 03:18, 12 February 2008 (EST)

:'Talk' pages are often classed as a sub-page of their parent page in the article namespace, and are often left as open edit even if the article namespace page has been locked.  Had a quick look at [[Pin Eight]], I would class it as <s>[[:Category:LoginToEdit|LoginToEdit]]</s> [[:Category:ConfirmEmail|ConfirmEmail]].  Rgds  [[User:Hoof Hearted|Hoof Hearted]] • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 06:45, 21 September 2012 (PDT)