On May 7, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:


On May 7, 2008, at 3:22 AM, Florian Ebeling wrote:

Wiki modification requires committer privileges.

I think it would benefit the project if we losen this policy. Nobody
applies
for commit to correct a small factual error. And it works for other site
quite
well. What was the name of this online encyclopedia, gain? ;)

I fully agree. We should allow wiki edits for everyone logged in. This opens up more possibilities to contribute to MacPorts, e.g. in the howto/*
section.
Trac's wiki has a history, so if anyone makes "wrong" edits, we can still
revert to an earlier version.

I agree as well. It certainly isnt a technical limit. Its a policy decision by macports management. I can relax the requirements if they agree to it.

Ok, then I hereby officially appeal to portmgr.

@portmgr: Do you approve of a change to the wiki permission policy to the effect
that every logged-in user can edit?



With my PortMgr hat on, I'm willing to loosen up a bit on this particular requirement and experiment for a while to see how it goes. I totally love Wikipedia, but I'm sure they have many more resources than us to deal with the side effects of such openness, e.g. wikispam. So it'd be great if we could keep a close eye on the Trac timeline for unwanted Wiki edits, also looking out for legit edits but with misleading information.


I can have Trac send email when a wiki modification happens. I actually use this to monitor all of the wikis on Mac OS Forge. So if you want me to add portmgr or -dev to that email, then you dont have to watch the Timeline page. (it emails a diff, comment, username, IP, etc).

-Bill





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