Re: Wiki Administration

2003-01-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Steven Noels wrote: > > People can do the same with patches on mailing list; and seem less > > likely to abuse that. Perhaps the simple validation (and display) of > > a valid email address may do the trick. > > The combination of a Wiki (JSPWiki, which offers an XMLRPC inte

Re: Wiki Administration

2003-01-28 Thread Steven Noels
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: Our project is getting value out of the Wiki, in part because we have non-Committers feeling empowered and able to contribute directly. People can do the same with patches on mailing list; and seem less likely to abuse that. Perhaps the simple validation (and displa

RE: Wiki Administration

2003-01-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> The life of a dyslexic is full of surprises. That should have read > "This is a bad-thing(tm).." I had figured as much from the earlier part of the paragraph. :-) > I assume that as soon as we create per PMC Wiki those PMC would > discover that they have pride of craft in the content of that

Re: Wiki Administration

2003-01-28 Thread Ben Hyde
Noel J. Bergman wrote: The control loops on the current wiki are _way_ too open loop and the resulting systems is prone creating ear damaging noises. This is not a bad-thing(tm) and likely to lay waste to the good-thing(tm). How would you amend the process? The life of a dyslexic is full of surpri

RE: Wiki Administration

2003-01-28 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
> Our project is getting value out of the Wiki, in part because we have > non-Committers feeling empowered and able to contribute directly. People can do the same with patches on mailing list; and seem less likely to abuse that. Perhaps the simple validation (and display) of a valid email address

RE: Wiki Administration

2003-01-28 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ben, >>> I continue to believe that the wiki should be per PMC. >> Responsibility for oversight of content? I agree. > which would requires some reengineering. >> ... search across the federated wikispace is a good thing. >useful input to whom ever grabs the reengineering knife. Agreed. I'm pret

Re: Wiki Administration

2003-01-28 Thread Ben Hyde
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Ben Hyde wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: Andy gave ... and Ben Hyde admin access. Wires got crossed someplace and that didn't come to closure. It's been a while but it maybe that it stumbled at the get account on nagoya You don't need a nagoya account to do it. Possibly, mayb

RE: Wiki Administration

2003-01-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ben Hyde wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Andy gave ... and Ben Hyde admin access. > Wires got crossed someplace and that didn't come to closure. It's been > a while but it maybe that it stumbled at the get account on nagoya You don't need a nagoya account to do it. Admin is built into the Wi

Re: Wiki Administration

2003-01-27 Thread Ben Hyde
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Andy gave ... and Ben Hyde admin access. Wires got crossed someplace and that didn't come to closure. It's been a while but it maybe that it stumbled at the get account on nagoya step? No big deal. I continue to believe that the wiki should be per PMC. Infrastructure i

RE: Wiki Administration

2003-01-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> In my book Andy (Oliver, not Clark) is the master of Wiki... Andy gave myself and Ben Hyde admin access. From what Andy is saying, his plan is to give that to anyone (within reason) who asks. I don't particularly have a care, other than that people ought to know that such things as deleting an

Re: Wiki Administration

2003-01-27 Thread Pier Fumagalli
On 27/1/03 2:50 am, "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just did some cleanup on the Wiki (deleted all pages marked for deletion). > Is there a need for a wiki@ or wikiadmin@ mailing list, or should admin > activity be posted to infrastructure? Or doesn't anyone care? ;-) The > fli