In response to "New wiki, what now?" article on news.opensuse.org, someone commented on the fact that the import/export functionality is not available to most users. I wanted to point this out to the wiki team so that you can decide among yourselves whether you wish to keep it this way. There is obviously a lot of potential for abuse and quality issues if this function is available to all users. On the other hand, a lot of people might care about preserving the history of the articles and will not be happy if they have no way of doing it.

Perhaps the best route might be to do something in between. I could delegate the Import/Export functions to a group such as "Editors", and let them decide on which pages to import into the new wiki. Then we can let the average user know whom they can contact to request an import. This is what I would personally suggest.

In addition, it was pointed out that there is an open bug to add an extension for protecting user pages. I'm going to try this out on stage, and if no one has any objections, commit it to the repository and deploy it to production. Now if I can just remember my Berlios credentials... :D