About Fedora Legacy's WikiSite

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Mar 12 04:08:07 UTC 2005


> > Please take a look at version 17 of SelfIntroduction page. The e-diots are
> > getting nastier. And I'm getting tired of this pingpong-like game.
> > Maybe it's about time to tighten up a bit access to the editing of
> > wikisite? :(
> 
> I'm not sure we can.  I'd be in favor of it requiring a password in
> addition to a username, but that's just because I'm worried that without
> that someone can login with my wiki username and make changes in my name
> without my knowledge and make me look bad...
> 

the wiki fedoraproject.org uses requires username+password and people
who are allowed to edit webpages are restricted to another access list.

A wiki makes pages easy to edit, it doesn't necessarily mean it should
be writable for everyone.

-sv





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