Re: [pydotorg-www] Manning Publications MEAP - Geoprocessing with Python

2015-04-29 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 29. April 2015 14.57.19 Nicole Butterfield wrote: Hello, I'm writing on behalf of Manning Publications. I have just created an account on the wiki, and I see that in order to update the wiki, I need to contact you directly. That's right: we need to give you access to edit the

Re: [pydotorg-www] Editing the Python Wiki

2015-04-05 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 2. April 2015 06.45.26 Reuven M. Lerner wrote: Hi there!I've published an ebook about Python, and wanted to add it to the Introductory Books page. My username on the wiki is ReuvenLerner, and the book I want to add/promote is at http://lerner.co.il/practice-makes-python

Re: [pydotorg-www] Help accessing wiki.python.org

2015-01-07 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 7. January 2015 01.59.56 Robert Lugg wrote: Hey all, I am having a heck of a time accessing this wiki. I do have an account and can log in to www.python.org as well as on pypi. Not sure exactly what help to ask for L. Basically, login on a page asks for name, password, and

Re: [pydotorg-www] web frameworks page feedback

2014-12-21 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 21. December 2014 00.14.01 Martijn Faassen wrote: Hi there, [I'm not sure where discussion about the wiki content should go, perhaps not here, in which I apologize. please skip to read the bottom] I think this list is as good as any for discussion of the content. I noticed a

Re: [pydotorg-www] editing Python wiki

2014-11-20 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 20. November 2014 21.23.56 Irmen de Jong wrote: Hi, I would like to correct the url for PYRO on this page: https://wiki.python.org/moin/DistributedProgramming but I cannot edit the page anymore. (the corrected URL that I wanted to put there is http://pythonhosted.org/Pyro4/ )

Re: [pydotorg-www] Edit request for TerriOda

2014-10-13 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 13. October 2014 08.29.39 Terri Oda wrote: I'd like to (re)request editing permissions on wiki.python.org. The GSoC 2015 students have actually started showing up already and I'd like to at least put up a stub of a page telling them to check back in January for projects. Added!

Re: [pydotorg-www] Request for edit permissions

2014-08-12 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 12. August 2014 22.39.17 Audrey M Roy wrote: Hi, I would like to request permission to edit https://wiki.python.org/moin/DiversityInPython I would like to: 1. add info about the new #pydiversity IRC channel (part of the original Python Diversity mailing list, used for real-time

Re: [pydotorg-www] Vandalism/spam on wiki.python.org: changes to default permissions

2014-05-31 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 31. May 2014 22.49.58 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Hello, in recent weeks, the Python Wiki has seen an increasing amount of spam and vandalism: https://wiki.python.org/moin/RecentChanges?max_days=60 Since the textchas we've been using apparently no longer serve their intended

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: Re: [Python Wiki] Update of PythonEditors by PaulBoddie

2014-02-09 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 9. February 2014 12.14.14 anatoly techtonik wrote: Can somebody make Wiki send mails from some list address more suitable for discussions? You can't argue with the wiki? ;-) But regarding the change I made... [...] The PythonEditors page has been changed by PaulBoddie:

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: Privacy policy of python.org

2014-01-23 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 23. January 2014 13.26.53 Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Michael Foord mich...@voidspace.org.uk: Anyone feel like responding to this? Sounds like nonsense to me. In what sense? Looking at what they asked, having a clearly indicated privacy policy is pretty standard these days, even

Re: [pydotorg-www] Editing the wiki

2013-11-19 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 19. November 2013 00.57.18 Alexandro Colorado wrote: ​Yeah I figure out that much. I am trying to improve the Spanish page also wonder if I can link it to the frontpage of the wiki. I see many (like Chineese at https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide ) that insert a link on

Re: [pydotorg-www] Editing the wiki

2013-11-19 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 19. November 2013 14.04.52 Alexandro Colorado wrote: ​Thanks for your help, the reason why I wrote to the list is precisely because I couldn't submit my editing to the SpanishLanguage page. Unless the page has been recently unlocked. I'll try again.​ I can't see any obvious

Re: [pydotorg-www] Hardcore is not only porn

2013-11-19 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 19. November 2013 15.58.15 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: On 19.11.2013 15:38, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:29 AM, M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com wrote: On 19.11.2013 14:46, anatoly techtonik wrote: wiki.python.org doesn't allow the word hardcore in contents, which

Re: [pydotorg-www] Editing the wiki

2013-11-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 18. November 2013 23.42.03 Alexandro Colorado wrote: Hi I tried to edit the wiki but I am not sure if there is a protocol for contributors as some of the pages are 'locked' and can't accept changes. Should I get in touch with the original author/mantainer of the page? Those of us

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Wiki Spam

2013-03-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 18 March 2013 19:00:37 Radomir Dopieralski wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Boddie p...@boddie.org.uk wrote: Hello, We're getting a fair amount of spam on the Python Wiki. Can someone with administrative privileges check that the textcha feature is enabled and has

Re: [pydotorg-www] Python Decorators

2013-03-02 Thread Paul Boddie
On Saturday 02 March 2013 17:08:23 anatoly techtonik wrote: I think it is fair to put non-HomePage wiki content to CC0 / Public Domain unless specified otherwise. If you want to preserve your rights - go publish the content in your blog and supply a link. Tracking down authors is a useless

Re: [pydotorg-www] Fwd: JavaScript problem

2013-02-28 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 28 February 2013 19:22:02 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: On 28.02.2013 17:57, Michael Foord wrote: We have at least one user who is using the LibreJS extension that blocks javascript not known to be free (in the ideological sense). Parts of python.org break when you do this. I promised I

Re: [pydotorg-www] (PEP )?redirector service

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Boddie
On Monday 11 February 2013 20:30:10 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: On 11.02.2013 16:18, anatoly techtonik wrote: Hi. Right now to go to pep from an URL, you have to type exactly: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008 What is needed to create redirector service on peps.python.org that sends

Re: [pydotorg-www] Changing default wiki permissions

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Boddie
Aahz wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: We're currently working on setting up the new VM with the Python and Jython wikis. In order to increase security and also to help a bit with avoiding spam/vandalism, we'd like to disable editing of wiki pages without login.

Re: [pydotorg-www] [PSF-Members] [Infrastructure] Wiki news?

2013-01-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 18 January 2013 22:50:10 Brian Curtin wrote: Speaking of improving it: on Wednesday, the PSF approved a grant to expedite development efforts that the MoinMoin team is putting in to using passlib for their password handling. This is a most welcome development. Although there may be

[pydotorg-www] Wiki ACLs

2012-12-06 Thread Paul Boddie
Stefan Drees wrote: Am 06.12.12 18:31, schrieb Skip Montanaro: I finally got around to this today. I added a PythonTrainingGroup page: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonTrainingGroup Thanks for doing the hard work! This lists a few known trainers. Marilyn Davis confirmed that she

[pydotorg-www] Wiki is too slow (Fwd: 1.2 beta release date/roadmap)

2012-07-09 Thread Paul Boddie
anatoly techtonik wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Martin v. Löwis martin at v.loewis.de wrote: Is it possible to speed up wiki.python.org somehow? Hopefully by migrating it to the new infrastructure. It appears it didn't help. Creating of a new page took 35seconds, which is

Re: [pydotorg-www] Internal Server Error while reverting spam

2011-12-02 Thread Paul Boddie
On Friday 02 December 2011 03:00:29 s...@pobox.com wrote: anatoly And it could be a little easier to type wiki.python.org/MelbournePUG if mysterious somebody anatoly could adjust web-server configuration accordingly. There's another layer in the URL which distinguishes the Python and

Re: [pydotorg-www] Internal Server Error while reverting spam

2011-12-01 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 01 December 2011 00:27:49 Richard Jones wrote: On 1 December 2011 10:07, Carl Karsten c...@personnelware.com wrote: They are not needed for legitimate use. I respectfully disagree. It's significantly easier to promote: j.mp/mpug than wiki.python.org/moin/MelbournePUG

Re: [pydotorg-www] Jython wiki is still getting spammed

2011-04-26 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 26 April 2011 17:00:27 A.M. Kuchling wrote: If that's so, I don't know what can be done about this, other than making the textchas harder or just restricting editing of the Jython wiki to a limited list of people, which might be OK if the Jython community agrees -- not many people

Re: [pydotorg-www] Upgrades completed

2011-03-03 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 03 March 2011 13:45:57 Radomir Dopieralski wrote: I volunteered to update and maintain the python wiki, but somehow never found the time to sort out all the details. Now that I did, I hope to help with the wiki on regular

Re: [pydotorg-www] copyrights in the wiki?

2011-02-26 Thread Paul Boddie
On Sunday 27 February 2011 00:16:20 s...@pobox.com wrote: Do we care about people adding copyrights to wiki pages (or the code therein)? http://wiki.python.org/moin/State%20Machine%20via%20Decorators In this case, it makes more sense for the code to be attached. If it then has copyright