I am working on some documentation for Trisquel, where (on selected ones) I
do not want to see other users editing their contents. Until now, I had no
problems with this since the users respected my request (it is stated on the
top of each page), and contacted me first, whether they had some suggestions,
or wanted to make some changes. But then yesterday I was contacted with a
Trisquel user called lembas who (after removing a part from this
documentation) asked me to remove some other part from my profile (to which
he obviously does not have access to), all this without any "clear"
explanation why[1].
I replied him complaining that he's wrong and that I would not like to see
him editing the page, then I restored the wiki page to its original state. I
tried to resolve to situation calmly, but he was being rude, ignorant,
blaming my work, and does not respected my request not to edit the page
directly, but rather contacting me if he have some suggestion, or if there is
some problem. After that he contacted me again today, again with an arrogant
tone in his message, but being a little bit more accurate on what he doesn't
liked, so I went ahead to investigate the problem, and ultimately fixed the
issue some hours later by replacing the application with a fully-free
counterpart, but before I done that, he removed the same part from the
documentation again, ignoring all my previous attempts to solve this
situation in the good way.
Such an approach severely harm my effort to help spread free software across
other users, since instead of focusing on my work, I need to argue with this
entity who is playing a "which-ones-change-lasts-longer" game with my work,
by deliberately making changes to it.
There are actually two possible outcomes from this situation:
Either I remove all the wiki pages that I created (eleven without my profile
page), and move them to some other web server, where there will be a
permanent lock-down on every page I create, without the ability for others to
edit them[2], or
I will get sole control over who can, and who will cannot edit my pages. I
really want to stay on this website, since all the information I provide
deals with Trisquel, and free software stuff, and I would like to continue
helping shape the project to the right direction with as much as I can.
Now my question is, if it is possible from the web-admin or anybody else with
the right status here to empower me with the ability to withhold the editing
function for myself on (some selected) pages I created?
Thanks for any suggestion.
P.S.: Here is the last message that I got today (in order to get a better
idea what kind of person this is)[3]
Peter
I'm not asking you to license review every piece of software you recommend,
I'm telling you flux is proprietary.
>"This page is a part of my personal profile page and was not meant for
contribution (at least not now)."
is hodgepodge and doesn't mean anything at all. Don't put your precious
wisdom on a public wiki page if you don't want people to edit it.
>On a side note, being rude, and vandalizing others work (taking matters
into your own hands, making changes to personal pages, while ignoring
multiple statement asking not to do that, without even such a simple gesture
to contact the author first) is "the" problem, that you have (actually, this
is not the first time).
Comedy gold. Dude, get a grip. 1. I'm not vandalizing but removing your
recommendation for proprietary software on the wiki of a distro that's sole
purpose is to offer a fully free environment. 2. There was not a single
intelligible statement in place asking me not to do what I did. 3. Keep your
lovely ad hominems to yourself
You're welcome to ignore any messages from me, just don't push proprietary
software, thank you very much.
love
Mikko
References
He does wrote that the application (which is called "f.lux") listed on the
page is non-free, but without any background/evidence to it, since the
particular software is released under a MIT/Expat free software license, and
there is no mention about any non-free parts (either on the website, source
code, or in the debian package).
Note that disabling the editing functionality is just temporary, that will
last until I decide that the page is finished, and in good shape to open it
for a wider audience.
Note that at the beginning of this message is a reply to my previous
statement, in which I explain him that if the author of the program state
that his/her program its free software, I cannot do anything but to trust
him, since reviewing all the code is a time-consuming process, and I am not
able to do it alone (also including 50+ other applications I included on the
wiki). He also ignored what I previously wrote, that I DO review license for
every single application that I recommend. See
http://trisquel.info/wiki/software, and
http://trisquel.info/wiki/software-more for further information.
