[pmwiki-users] Preventing vandalism

[Pico]

Pico wrote:
> Pico <pmwiki <at> ben-amotz.com> writes:
> 
>> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 07:42:16AM -0400, Pico wrote:
>>>> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 12:59:48AM +0200, kirpi <at> kirpi.it wrote:
>>>>>> Just an idea, while reading these lines; is there any way to let the
>>>>>> posts (read edits) to a site/group/page be handled about the same way
>>>>>> they often are in many usenet forums or blogs, or even shared
>>>>>> calendars, which is: queued for a "moderator" to approve them?
>>>>> Yes, it can be done.  I'll write up a complete recipe for it,
>>>>> but the essential concept is to change Site.EditForm so that the
>>>>> "Save as draft" button is labelled "Save" and is all that
>>>>> a typical author sees, while the "Save" button is labeled
>>>>> "Publish" and and is displayed only to moderators.
>>>> What happen with multiple edits prior to approval under such approaches?
>> [snip]
>>
>> 1. Dynamically relabel the buttons when their function changes, i.e. 
>> when the document being edited ends with "-draft" change the labels to 
>> reflect the fact that the "Save" will now publish the draft to the 
>> original and that the Save As Draft will save this draft.
>>
> Or, better yet:
> 
[snip]

Apologies to the list, this started getting too confusing and I wished I 
could have taken back the last post (replying to myself when I should 
have stopped).

I created a page TEST/PreventingVandalism to try to summarize and 
clarify what I am trying to get at and how it might work with Pm's proposal.

Pico