7 Jul 03:31
Wiki edit policy change
From: Fernando Perez <fperez.net <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Wiki edit policy change
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.ipython.devel
Date: 2008-07-07 01:34:38 GMT
Subject: Wiki edit policy change
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.ipython.devel
Date: 2008-07-07 01:34:38 GMT
Hi all, for a very long time, Ryan James has tirelessly been cleaning up spam on the wiki, but that's neither fun nor fair nor a wise use of resources (his time in this case). We recently realized, with Jarrod Millman's help, what the problem was: all the recommended techniques for disabling Moin account creation (at least the publicly listed ones) fail hopelessly, because from any existing logged in user, it is trivial to trick Moin into auto-generating new user accounts that it recognizes. So instead of the ineffective account creation block, I've changed things to openly allow new accounts, but without write privileges. Only users listed here: http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/WritersGroup can edit pages. I went through all the logs I could find to add everyone I could find that seemed like a valid user, please just let us know and we'll add you if I missed you. Please note that anyone in http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/EditorsGroup can edit the WritersGroup page and add new names, so it should be trivial to get added if you want to contribute, just ask here on the list or email an editor (or me) and we'll add you right away. Hopefully this will now work, since ACLs in Moin seem to be more robust than their Gruyère cheese security model for user creation.(Continue reading)
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