Re: Wiki access warning?

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.

Stefan