[FFmpeg-devel] List of Codecs, Containers, etc.

[Daniel Cardenas]

Mike Melanson wrote:
> [missed this email regarding the Wiki while I was on vacation...]
> 
> 
> Maybe you're not familiar with the whole Wiki paradigm. It turns nearly 
> any network security model on its head since Wiki was apparently 
> conceived by a bunch of starry-eyed utopians who believe that all people 
> are innately good and only wish to create community and spread knowledge.
> 
> I do not need to tell you that this does not work in the real world.
Are you saying wikipedia does not work?

> 
> As I indicated, the wide-open Wiki paradigm is silly on the wide-open 
> internet.
Seems to work well for many sites such as Gnome and Ubuntu.

> To review-- the current MediaWiki software that we use allows a 
> malicious user to do an extraordinary amount of damage very quickly and 
> it is very tedious and time-consuming to repair the damage. That's why 
> we had to impose such serious access control, until the situation improves.

Wonder why it works for so many other sites.