Wiki editing update

[Alan Pope]

Hi,

Yesterday during the CC meeting mhall119 took an action to speak to
Canonical IS about the current inability to edit the wiki. I just
wanted to fire an update (as mhall119 is currently asleep) to the list
to let everyone know what's happened/happening.

Previously.. on "Ubuntu Wiki"..

The wiki was under heavy spam attack. Countermeasures were implemented
by IS to prevent spam from reaching the wiki. Wiki users were unable
to login/edit at various times due to a by-product of, or over-active
countermeasures.

Yesterday..

We discussed in #ubuntu-community-team a possible short term solution
in that we'd lock down the wiki to only being editable by a select
group of people. Rather than cherry pick a very small set of users, we
chose to use the ~ubuntu-etherpad launchpad group. This group is a
'delegated' team which means "Membership is inclusive; any user or
team can join, but team administrators approve direct memberships".

It was originally used to limit access to the Ubuntu Etherpad (to
prevent spam), we're re-using it, because it makes sense. This team is
already populated by many active community contributors and has a
bunch of active admins.

Join the team on launchpad if you want to edit the wiki.
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-etherpad

Today...

There's still some performance / glitchy issues with the wiki. The IS
person responsible is in the US timezone and we'll catch up with them
when they wake later.

So, in summary:-

1. Join https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-etherpad to edit the wiki and
wait for someone to approve your request to join
2. Go to the wiki and click "Login" at the top banner http://wiki.ubuntu.com/
3. In the Ubuntu SSO login screen, make sure the box next to "Team
membership: ubuntu-etherpad" is ticked (this tells the wiki you are in
that team, which allows your edit rights).
4. Back at the wiki click the "Ubuntu wiki" banner at the top, and
refresh the page (caching, meh)

At this point you should see your username where previously you saw
"Login". This means you're logged in and should be able to edit. If it
doesn't work (like pages show as immutable rather than editable), let
us know and we'll debug and feedback to IS.

Apologies for this nonsense, but it should get people going for now.
Thanks for your patience!

-- 
Alan Pope
Community Manager

Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering and Services
+44 (0) 7973 620 164
alan.pope at canonical.com
http://ubuntu.com/