Re: Wiki access warning?

Alvaro,

On Monday, January 4, 2016, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> > On 01/04/2016 09:52 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > Josh,
> > >
> > > * Josh Berkus (josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com <javascript:;>) 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.
>

Works for me, but I don't think it's very easy to get that list of wiki
usernames, is it?

Thanks!

Stephen