Re: Wiki access warning?

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 01/04/2016 09:52 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Josh,
> >
> > * Josh Berkus (josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com) wrote:
> >> Apparently all wiki accounts have been set to read-only mode as an
> >> antispam measure. We should probably post a notice on the wiki home
> >> page, and maybe on pgsql-general/announce about this, so that people
> >> aren't surprised when they can't edit the wiki.
> >
> > Not all of them. Dave and Joe (as I recall) spent quite a bit of time
> > going through and setting up the right permissions for everyone who had
> > edited the wiki recently who weren't identified as spammers.
> >
> > Thus, the change should only impact those who haven't edited it recently
> > and who are now trying to. I agree that adding something to the
> > homepage letting people know that they need to be granted membership in
> > the Editor group to edit pages would be good.
>
> exactly - accounts that have recently edited the wiki have been granted
> the "editor" priviledge. We are still discussing on how to improve the
> situation but the mediawiki capabilities in terms of moderation are limited.

Simple idea: everyone invited to a developer meeting should get editor
privs automatically.

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