-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, the barrier for participation is too high.
What should have been a single, simple page edit has now become a requirement for an account on the Wiki (OK, that's reasonable), an obscure requirement to add myself to an Editor page (I participate on many community Wikis; this is the first time I've run into that). Now there also seems to be a requirement to join the Developer's mailing list, and another to join the Savannah project site. It turns out that the Wiki signup page asked for my first and last names (reasonable), but that generated a user name of [[Bob Jonkman]], with a space. Editing the Editor's page and my home page is nearly impossible, since the Preview button doesn't deal well with the embedded space. I munged the URL to use %20, but after two or three edits that becomes too onerous. And the Support page is still "immutable". The Captcha is one of the strongest I've seen, requiring detailed knowledge of the gNewSense project (that's reasonable). However, the questions can't be readily answered from information on the wiki. There is no project history page to research the question "What wiki software was used before MoinMoin" (I found a casual mention in a blog post to PMWiki), and to answer the question "Who is the maintainer of Linux-Libre" I had to turn to Wikipedia since Alexandre Oliva is not listed on the gNewSense Credits page. And it seems ".odt" is not the correct answer to "What's the common file extension for OpenDocument format text documents?" Punctuation? Capitalization? So, while I'm happy to contribute to gNewSense in a casual, trivial way this has just become too difficult. - --Bob. On 11/01/15 11:52 AM, Jason Chiang wrote: > Please read and follow the instructions listed at > http://www.gnewsense.org/WebTeam#Joining_The_Team page to see if > you can edit the wiki or not. > > On 1/12/15, rsiddharth <rsiddha...@ninthfloor.org> wrote: >> >>> I tried to add this info to the page at >>> http://www.gnewsense.org/Support but even when I'm logged in to >>> the Wiki the page is still marked "Immutable page". >>> >>> I don't know if someone on the mailing list has admin access to >>> the Wiki; there does not seem to be a Wiki admin contact >>> address... >> >> Add your wiki username at http://gnewsense.org/EditorGroup and >> see if you're able to edit the wiki. >> >> Thanks. -- rsiddharth <http://rsiddharth.ninth.su/contact.html> >> > > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users > mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAlSytBMACgkQuRKJsNLM5eoE1gCdFH90JOOccqskGYFrt+NcRu0X zugAoO+RHn96BgCcVAlFcQSNMq8U2ppc =VMRK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users