Re: Wiki access warning?

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
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: 2016-01-05 21:08:02
Message-ID: 568C30B2.20205@kaltenbrunner.cc
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On 01/04/2016 10:06 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> 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...

I have now added a big boilerplate warning to the entire wiki on the
issue - it is certainly not the "best" solution but it at least should
give people a hint on where to ask...

Stefan

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