[Fedora-directory-devel] opening up the wiki

[Seth Nickell]

Its also worth noting that if there are pages that we need maintained
w/o changes for legal reasons (in particular,
http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Download, but perhaps
others?), we can just Protect them in mediawiki. Protected mediawiki
pages can only be edited by those with an administrator bit set.

On 6/19/06, Seth Nickell <snickell at redhat.com> wrote:
> On the principle of providing for the possibility general community
> openness (i.e. lets not have barriers even if we're not getting a bunch
> of people jumping in quite yet), I'd like to propose opening up the
> wiki... i.e. not requiring manually approved accounts.
>
> I think this raises some legitimate security concerns... about the best
> response I can provide is that these just haven't been major practical
> issues amongst wikis in the open source world. Defacing of wikis, about
> the worst I've actually heard of in any projects I'm connected to (and
> even this is rare), is very easy to revert.
>
> Sometimes I think prudence and responsibility can be bad for having
> functioning open source projects, which are inherently a little hacky
> and fly-by-night in nature (even the very important ones that end up
> running critical systems, ahem) ;-)
>
> -Seth
>
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