On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <orwittm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > ASF infra had to clean up the CWiki due to a lot of spam. Thus, ASF infra > put in place new default access rights. > In short: the right to edit CWiki pages needs to be granted > person-by-person. >
OK. That explains it then. We have a few pages that the new volunteer orientation pages ask a new volunteers to edit, as one of their first contributions. These are the Directory of Volunteers, as well as specialized pages for QA and L10 volunteers. Hopefully we agree that having such lists is a good idea, so we should decide what we want to do know, and I can adjust the orientation pages accordingly. 1) Move these pages to the MWiki. Is spam a problem there? Can anyone still sign up there for an account? Is there any tool that will convert CWiki to MWiki pages? or 2) Is there any way to mark specific pages in CWiki as open-access pages? There are only 3 or so such pages that are like this for us. So it might be acceptable, from a spam perspective, if the default edit requires special permissions, except for these 3 pages. or 3) We change the orientation pages so the new volunteer requests a wiki permissions as part of their introductory note to the mailing list. Looking at the page history, this looks like it would lead to an average of one request every 2 days. But if the request is done as part of the introduction email it would not generate more traffic. But this would be extra work for wiki admins, so we might want more volunteers there. I believe nearly every project contributor will eventually want both CWiki and MWiki accounts, so we cannot really avoid the account management side of this. Any other ideas? -Rob > Best regards, Oliver. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
