From: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Wiki access warning? |
Date: | 2016-01-04 21:06:49 |
Message-ID: | 568ADEE9.2080904@kaltenbrunner.cc |
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On 01/04/2016 09:58 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.
yeah - but that is not nearly enough, the wiki really is for the wider
community and we need to find a more suitable approach...
Stefan
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