On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 05:51:41PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2016-05-11 10:04:26 -0400 (-0400), Sean Dague wrote: > [...] > > Before deciding that it's unsurmountable, maybe giving delete > > permissions to a larger set of contributors might be a good idea. > [...] > > I have no objection to granting delete (on non-locked articles) to > all users immediately if someone works out the necessary > configuration change to put that into effect. I expect it was > restricted by default to encourage people to instead annotate > articles as deprecated or use the "move" feature to redirect them to > more relevant ones. That said, I think we're at the point where we > should start considering such important content as candidates to > move elsewhere outside the wiki (especially any currently remaining > locked articles). > > > I do realize running a public wiki is a PITA, especially at the > > target level of openstack.org. > [...] > > The thing which would most significantly reduce its attractiveness > to spammers would be to stop having major search engines index the > content on it. Somewhere they can publish content and have it > immediately show up in search engine results is really _all_ they > care about. Maybe a compromise is to say that the wiki is an okay > place to publish things you don't need people to find through > external search engines? Then we could quite easily open account > creation back up with minimal risk and much lower moderator demand.
I think giving out delete permissions is a good first step, however if we are going down this path of keep the wiki alive, I believe we have to look at re-evaluating mediawiki. Our current setup with puppet is not idea and I feel mediawiki is maybe too much software for what we are doing. I'd love to use something more easier to manage (ideally not php based). > -- > Jeremy Stanley > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev