WikiToDo request

[mw crowley]

Hello,
I asked to join the mentoring group a short while ago, and it wasn't really
clear where I should jump in, but documentation for newbs sounds like
something I could really make an impact on the workload.  Let me know what I
can do to help and the  best place to get started.
Mike Crowley.

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Connor Imes <rocket2dmn at aol.com> wrote:

> David Symons wrote:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Connor Imes <rocket2dmn at aol.com> wrote:
> >> Dean Sas wrote:
> >>> Connor Imes wrote:
> >>>> Hello all,
> >>>> I work with the Beginner's Team on the Ubuntu forums and we maintain
> our
> >>>> own area on the wiki at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Beginners
> >>>> As part of the reorganization of our wiki area we added some pages to
> be
> >>>> deleted by listing them at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiToDo
> >>>> but nothing has been done for months - it seems like this page has
> been
> >>>> neglected.  I'm hoping that somebody with the appropriate permissions
> >>>> can take care of this for us, along with other requests that have been
> >>>> posted on WikiToDo.
> >>> Hi Connor,
> >>> Thanks for getting in touch with us.
> >>>
> >>> I assume the team that gets delete privs on h.u.c is ubuntu-wiki ?
> >>> Couldn't we argue that anyone with bzr commit rights should be
> >>> automatically a member of this team?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Dean
> >>>
> >> I believe that is correct - anybody on ubuntu-wiki falls under the
> >> documentation team, but it just seems nobody has stepped forward anytime
> >> in the last few months to take care of the growing "to do" list on
> >> WikiToDo.  Only those users have the ability to delete pages.  If
> >> anybody getting these emails is on that team or knows a better way to
> >> get ahold of them, please let me know so I can get in contact with them.
> >> Thanks,
> >> -Connor
> >>
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> >
> > Hi Connor, Dean, all
> >
> > Firstly my apologies to you and others for being one of the people
> > with delete/move capabilities on the h.u.c/c wiki and neglecting my
> > duties.  A combination of being somewhat inactive recently and not
> > knowing of the existence of that WikiToDo page (probably due to the
> > former) have led to this situation.  Both of these aspects have now
> > changed.  The next mistake was to start working from the top of the
> > list :-) .
> >
> > As I understand it, it has always been the intention that members of
> > the Launchpad ubuntu-wiki team have delete/move privileges but that it
> > has not been set up.  Currently, those abilities have to be endowed by
> > someone with administrative access to the wiki engine (MoinMoin)
> > itself.  From now I will devoting more time to WikiToDo, so hopefully
> > that will help.
> >
> > I've done some of the requested deletions - including all the
> > Beginners/ ones.  I need to spend some time looking into the others
> > (eg. editing referring pages - it would be good if deletion requesters
> > would do this more).  Hopefully some of the others with the privs will
> > chime in too.
> >
> > Cheers, Dave.
>
> Thanks Dave, we really appreciate it.  I will work with the UF
> Beginner's Team to see what we can do to help get other parts of the
> wiki up to speed with Hardy over the next few months.  I expect that
> this summer people will have more time to dedicate to this task (since
> many users are students as well).  I will stay subscribed to this
> mailing list and do what I can to contribute.
> Take care,
> -Connor
>
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