Community Help Wiki edits during the lockdown

[Elizabeth K. Joseph]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Jarno Suni <j_suni at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Monday, February 8, 2016 1:34 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org> wrote:
>
>> > Hello,
> [...]
>> If you want a wiki page changed during the lockdown, PLEASE do the
>> actual modifying of the page yourself [1], then send the DIFF to us. Or
>> in other words, do not expect the admins and/or editors to do the
>> changes for you; we are not experts in all subjects and we don't always
>> have the time to dig deep in merging a wiki page with some information
>> from another website.
>
> Can't you just give people who you regard as expert the rights to edit a page? That way people would get the credit for their changes, and could preview changes, too.

This would require giving full Editor (which is a type of
administrator) access. There's a process for building up a reputation
of editing and working up to this level of authority on the wiki, we
don't want to just start adding everyone. At this time we have no
ability to add more fine-tuned permissions per page because the wiki
is locked down to only Editors and Administrators.

Canonical IS has proposed an additional group of contributors for when
the wiki is locked down which we could add people to, but this has not
been set up yet and our other proposals haven't been evaluated yet
either.

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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2