Wiki Login Policy
Introduction
Tom Griffing is currently the login administrator.
To register an account, click on the left Create Account, which is found in the upper right corner of the wiki:
History
In the past, wiki account creation was free for anyone. Once created, the user was able to edit and add pages at will. This caused a lot of spam appearing on the wiki.
Then I changed the configuration so that newly created accounts would have to validate its email address BEFORE being able to add / edit pages.
This measure eliminated the creation of spam in wiki pages.
However, spammers would still create some accounts every day (because they thought they would be able to add spam pages to the wiki).
The continuous creation of new spam accounts is something undesirable, since it adds burden to the administration process of the wiki in the long run.
So, I thought it would be best to disable user-initiated wiki account creation, leaving this task to me (or any other admin).
But then, I decided to try out the OpenID extension for the wiki (I'm already using OpenID for the forum and for the Drupal community portal).
After enabling OpenID on the wiki, I saw some new user accounts being automatically created.
Limitations
OpenID does not include signing an OSE Contributor Agreement. People need to do so, in order to protect both contributors and OSE on legal grounds of IP law. In the OSE signup process, the Contributor Agreement must be addressed. Further, sign-up is a good place to begin creating teams, with a survey that does what the current Technical Team Culturing Survey does.