Ubuntu Wiki Admin Team

[cprofitt]

On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 09:39 +0000, Matthew East wrote:

> 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.

Thanks that is very helpful. 

> 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 as a team we will want to add one more person to the admin
group.

> 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!

I think the structure works fine some of us just did not know how to go
about managing the permissions as new people are brought on-board.

Thanks for the quick action and excellent explanation on how things
work.

Charles