Ubuntu Wiki Admin Team

[Pasi Lallinaho]

On 07/12/13 16:43, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
> On 07/12/13 11:39, Matthew East wrote:
>> 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.
> Does the adding members to the LP group still happens manually?
>
>> 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.
> It sounds to me that it would probably be best to have some Community
> Council account in this group as well, if you people are not around or
> overly busy. Sure, you don't need to use those permissions too often,
> but it would make sense to secure the access to that group relatively
> easily.
>
> Matthew, thanks for being available even if not too much "around"!
>
>> 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.
> See the comment above. Maybe just this group could be enough though.
>
>> 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!
> Again, see comment above for my thoughts.
>
>> Let me know what the team would like to do.
>>
>> Matt
> Cheers,
> Pasi
>

Also, the Community Council should probably be the owner of
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-doc-wiki-admins/.

Pasi

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