Dear coreboot/flashrom mailing list members, As you may have noticed it is not that easy or straightforward to gain the edit rights for coreboot/flashrom wikipedias so the people are mass migrating to the unofficial wikis. For example: recently Zoran Stojsavljevic had to bring his Coreboot/VBT article to Jimmy Wales wikipedia instead of coreboot wikipedia, Mike Banon had to put his EC KB9012 chip flashing article to DangerousPrototypes wikipedia instead of flashrom wikipedia, and I could provide many other similar examples if needed
Currently, to get the edit rights for coreboot/flashrom wikipedias you have to personally contact the wikipedias administration, who are the highly active open source developers with a lot of things to do and may simply forget to review your request - and you have to provide a good enough detailed explanation of what exactly you are going to write or edit, despite that your plans might change and suddenly you would like to improve another article, write your own, or maybe even want to improve the many other random articles: doing small changes like fixing the typos / replacing the broken links / updating the clearly outdated information / other fixes that are minor by nature but still are majorly improving the wikipedias quality I believe that the current administrative barriers are too high: to gain the edit rights you should not be required to go through what seems to be like a job interview, especially because this is not like a job offer and your work at these wikipedias will be unpaid My proposal is to give the edit rights to all the subscribers of the coreboot/flashrom mailing lists, or at least to all those who have been the subscribers for at least a day / a week / or a month. Could see only the positive outcome from this action, because I strongly believe that all the members of coreboot/flashrom mailing lists are responsible smart individuals and their wiki contributions will be of high quality. Alternatively, the registration could be made completely open, but with a strong registration/login captcha or maybe even per-edit captcha to prevent the automatic bots/spammers from ruining the wiki pages Please share your opinions about this proposal. It is interesting to hear your thoughts, and maybe they could influence the coreboot/flashrom projects future Best regards, qmastery _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list flashrom@flashrom.org https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
