On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Ron Feigenblatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/2/13, Chris Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: > >... Please just make the changes you think need to be made, that is why we > > keep information on a wiki, so that anyone can contribute to improving > > it's quality or discoverability. > > Chris, are you the "wikimaster"? I can't seem to use the wiki to find > out who is! Going to the home page of the wiki or to the > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Wiki_Team page does NOT help. > > Some years back I used Wikispaces for several wikis. As its wiki > system model evolved, the administrator of a wiki gained the power to > lock out changes on a page-by-page basis (and maybe even to delegate > such powers to chosen sub-administrators?) Is that possible within the > MediaWiki system we use here at Sugar Labs? > > The reason I ask is that just the other day, Sean Daly, leader of the > Marketing Team, lamented as follows (cf. > http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2013-02-01#i_2768391 ) > "last time i tried to make a wiki page more readable for teachers, a > community member wiped out all my edits, after 3 days i gave up was > very disheartening" > Be assured that all changes saved in a wiki can be recovered from the 'View history' tab for a page. While one is reconstructing an existing page, it is often best to copy it to a separate page as content details are worked out. Open discussion (on the associated 'Discussion' page) with other interested authors will generally lead to improvements. Thank you for your contributions! --Frederick Grose, wiki team coordinator
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