Moving this conversation to the general list just to confirm some
decisions on the wiki. This is in regards to if we need to lock down
certain pages which will affect the OSAF Wiki globally, ie. the right
side bar—and the answer is no. See response in-line:
On Apr 2, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Sheila Mooney wrote:
On Apr 2, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
I purposely didn't send this to the general list because currently
*anyone* is able to edit the right side bar 'announcements' area
and changes will affect all pages. My goal for tomorrow's design
session is to go ahead and lock down the side bar pages except for
the Admins/content owners—but this might be something worth
addressing about in tomorrow's meeting as well.
In other words, maybe it's not such a big issue to lock down pages?
I have no idea what the precedent is for this? I assume that
everything on a wiki is open and could be changed by anyone. Can't
people technically change the sidebar on our wiki today? Maybe they
just don't know the link to do it? It seems to me like there are 2
questions here.
+ Should we lock down any pages so only a certain group of people
can edit them?
So the answer to this is no. We want to keep all pages editable for a
collaboration, but when we start to find frequent spamming or other
mis-use behavior, we may bring up this up for discussion on the list
again.
+ If we don't lock down pages, do we send out the instructions
about how to change this stuff to the general list like all the
other information or do we simply distribute this to the wiki area
owners.
So currently instructions, specifically related to global changes to
content, side bars etc. are sent to all the content owners of the wiki.
Or someone please correct me if I didn't get that right?
Thanks, -Priscilla
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