Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > I have been thinking about this but it doesnt make much sense to me to > have ACL's over all wiki content in Fedora. Wiki has a large edit > group now that they might still make accidental changes which we need > to monitor. I am not sure spam is enough of a problem to warrant this. > what we can do is have a very limited acl for all the sensitive pages > and a free run on the rest to encourage more active participation. > There are a few people who monitor all changes to the wiki and I can > do my share too. > > Comments? > > regards > Rahul > I don't see a need to reduce the access limitations. The system we have now works well, and requiring registration give us a point of contact for every wiki contributor. They must be able to contact us, and us contact them, before they are able to make changes and contribute. I think this is extremely valuable. The fact that they have to make human contact also ensures that no bots can register and muck things up. Since there is nothing wrong with the current system, I also don't see why we would want to open up significant portions of the site to defacement. It wouldn't take much for the site to be horribly mangled by a bot if it is so open. The method we have now is quite open, someone only needs to make contact before they are allowed to make changes. If anything, I would suggest we further tighten restrictions on key pages. There are certain sections of the site I could agree to opening up further, but I would still want to require registration. This was our idea with the drafts section for the FDP. It's standard security practice: you start with no access and allow only what is needed. -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx http://www.n-man.com/ -- Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/
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