Re: Wiki editor request

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 01:21:24PM -0700, Joshua Drake wrote:
> >>Well, what percentage of readers of www do not grant wiki permissions?
> >>I would guess it is +90%, meaning 90% of www subscribers are reading
> >>emails in which they have no interest, and 90% of traffic on this list
> >>is now the request for wiki permissions --- so that makes 180%. ;-)
> >
> >not sure I believe in that math...
> >
>
> Since April 1st I have received over 69 messages in regards to adding or
> modifying users for the wiki. I have received 336 messages to the list. So
> about 20% of the traffic on this list is editor requests.

I checked from February to today and saw 48%, so not 90% as I guessed.

> >>If you would like me to unsubscribe because this list is now mostly for
> >>the requesting of wiki permissions, I can do that.
> >
> >well - sorry for that but please understand that granting permissions
> >that way is not fun for us either and it would be an additional burden
> >for use to track yet-another-list, but if that is what people think we
> >need to do...
>
> Yeah it sucks all around, we are resource constrained. It seems what should
> happen is something like:
>
> * If you have a community account, login and select "request wiki editor
> privs"
>
> * If you don't have a community account, create one and select "request wiki
> editor privs"
>
> Then have a script that automatically does it once every 24 hours based on N
> criteria.
>
> But again, we are resource constrained. Bruce, would you be willing to help
> implement some of this?

No, I would be more likely to create a procmail rule to discard those
emails.

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