Thank you Andy. Even if I already had an account, this will be extremely 
useful. Already bookmarked.

On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 7:54:12 PM UTC-4, Andy Armstrong wrote:
>
> We recently performed an audit of our Confluence wiki spaces, and 
> discovered that a large amount of our best material is not being indexed by 
> search engines because access is only permitted to registered users. In 
> particular, both the Architecture and Engineering spaces had such a 
> restrictive access scheme.
>
> For the Architecture space, we decided that the majority of the material 
> should be considered open, so we changed its permissions to allow anonymous 
> access. For the Engineering space, on the other hand, the majority of pages 
> were for edX internal use so we have changed its permissions to reflect 
> this.
>
> With this change, there was a lot of great content that would have been 
> hidden, so we have moved it to a new open space for Open edX developers:
>
> https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/OpenDev/Open+edX+Development
>
> All the developer documentation we could find in other spaces has been 
> moved here, and so should now be accessible to everyone (search engines and 
> anonymous users alike). Our intention is to continue making as much wiki 
> content as we can default to open access.
>
> Please let us know if you have any feedback on this change, or if you have 
> wiki pages that you have been using that are no longer available to you.
>
> Thanks,
>
>  - Andy
>
> P.S. We are also in the process of deprecating the edx-platform GitHub 
> wiki, and so over the next few months that content will be migrating into 
> the new development wiki.
> -- 
>
> *Andy Armstrong*
>
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>
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