Ubuntu Wiki Admin Team

[Matthew East]

On 7 December 2013 01:55, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I'm unsure that you would have the permissions to add other admins. IS
> informed me the process for this is to file an RT and have it assigned to
> jcastro.

I'll start a new thread so that this is easier to find for reference.

The way that permissions work on the wiki is that there is an
"AdminGroup" and a "EditorGroup". The EditorGroup gives access to
delete and rename pages. That's the group that we've called the
~ubuntu-doc-wiki-admins.

To add someone to the ~ubuntu-doc-wiki-admins team, they just need to
be added to the EditorGroup page on the wiki, as the Launchpad page
states. I've done this for Lyz and Pasi.

The AdminGroup, as far as I can remember, gives the right to change
the access control settings on pages (see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HelpOnAccessControlLists). At the
moment this group can change the members of the EditorGroup page.

The AdminGroup on our wiki currently is made up of me, Matt Nuzum, and
Colin Watson. I can't remember what Matt and Colin used their
permissions for but I guess that they were contributing some specific
pages that needed this. I think it might have been to update this page
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes) which Colin has been
doing in recent times, but that doesn't quite seem right since other
users have also been able to edit that page in the past. I used the
permission for adding people to the EditorGroup.

I think that there is a different type of administrator in MoinMoin
called a super user, which requires sysadmin intervention to add. If I
recall rightly, I have this access too, but it's so long since I
needed to use it that I can't even remember what it does. It's
possible that it brings the ability to edit the AdminGroup.

Frankly I don't know whether a different structure of permissions can
be used with MoinMoin. I'd be happy to use whatever rights I still
have to add others to AdminGroup, to change the permissions structure
(if this can be done and if the team wants to do so) and then to
remove myself!

Let me know what the team would like to do.

Matt