+1 on Noah's non-Procedure. B.
On 21 October 2011 19:14, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > Most productive edits come from regular contributors or members of the > community. Most drive-by edits come from spammers. In fact, there are some > spammers with genuine accounts, who make very purposeful and directed edits > to inject links inconspicuously. > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Pepijn de Vos <pepijnde...@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> I wonder what the demography is of contributors. Are they all contributors >> and list members, or is there a reasonable portion of users that just walk >> by, fix something and walk on. >> >> On Oct 21, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Noah Slater wrote: >> >> > Yeah, I don't think we need a Procedure™ in place for this. >> > >> > Basically, as long as a wiki admin adds you to the contributor list, >> you're >> > good to go. How you reach out to that admin, or how they find out about >> your >> > request, is unimportant. We should present plenty of options for people >> to >> > contact one of us. >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com >> >wrote: >> > >> >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> On Oct 21, 2011, at 18:57 , Noah Slater wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> Sounds good to me. >> >>> >> >>> "Open a JIRA to get a wiki account" sounds very bad to me. >> >>> >> >>> I understand we gotta get the spam under control, but asking >> >>> people to sign up in two places and put a potentially long >> >>> manual setup process will kill almost any contribution energy. >> >>> Heck, I try to avoid the wiki as much as I can as is. >> >>> >> >>> <insert handwavey suggestion to a better alternative> >> >>> >> >>> (I got nothing for now apart from moving to a better wiki, sorry) >> >>> >> >>> Cheers >> >>> Jan >> >>> -- >> >>> >> >> >> >> I agree with Jan about multiple signups. I'd say an email to any list >> >> or any IRC request is more than enough to get wiki edits is fine. >> >> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>>> >> >>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>>> On Friday, October 21, 2011, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> >> wrote: >> >>>>>> To JIRA you mean? >> >>>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> yes >> >>>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Benoit Chesneau < >> >> bchesn...@gmail.com >> >>>>>> wrote: >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org >> > >> >>>>> wrote: >> >>>>>>>> Hey, >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> On advice from Gavin McDonald, I'd like to suggest that we lock >> down >> >>>>> the >> >>>>>>>> wiki to a list of pre-approved users. To get approved to make >> edits, >> >>>>> you >> >>>>>>>> would submit a request to one of the mailing lists or to one of >> the >> >>>>> wiki >> >>>>>>>> admins or committers. That's it. It should remove the need to >> >> protect >> >>>>>>> pages >> >>>>>>>> like the "in the wild" stuff and the people on the couch. Other >> >>>>> projects >> >>>>>>>> have implemented this and they get absolutely no spam as a result. >> >>>>>>>> Infrastructure suggested we move to it, and I wanna see what >> people >> >>>>> think >> >>>>>>>> about it. >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> More info here: >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> +1 >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> Maybe approval requests could also be submitted as tickets? >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> - benoit >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> >
