On 08.12.2023 03:08, David C. Rankin wrote:
Arch Devs,
This has been a growing problem over the years. We no longer have a
community wiki, we have a wiki that reverts user contribution and
continues to deteriorate as a result.
Attempting to contribute today to the postgresql page and all
additions were undone again by user:Erus Iluvatar.
Instead of providing concise information on how to initialize
postgresql the wiki instead of providing the example of using the
heretofore recommended sudo -iu postgres to reach the postgres prompt
instead refers wiki readers to a non-specific web page for them to
figure it out for themselves. (
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Security#Privilege_elevation)
This is unhelpful. The simple example contributed:
(example: sudo -iu postgres)
was summarily removed.
If Arch no longer wants community contributions to the wiki just make
that a policy so we don't waste time anymore attempting to contribute.
Hi David,
realistically your example was redundant, generally user switching is a
trivial task that is not at all required to be explicitly listed on a
wiki page for a database.
On top of that, your example was also poorly formatted as plain, bold
text, instead of the common code formatting for code/shell input.
I'm not a wiki editor and I would have removed that edit too.
Regards,
Khorne
