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[Nio Wiklund]

Den 2016-06-08 kl. 19:45, skrev Pasi Lallinaho:
> There are still certain teams which have edit access. One of these teams
> is the Ubuntu members team.
>
> To join that team, you will have to contribute to Ubuntu significantly,
> so it isn't likely of interest for the mechanical turks (because they
> don't get much money for the spamming "work" they do, and it would be
> unprofitable and too slow to get approved - especially since you would
> get removed from the team very quickly after your first spam attack...)
>
> Other teams with edit access include other more heavily moderated teams,
> like the Xubuntu team etc. Adding as many of these more heavily
> moderated teams as editors of the wiki is a good way to go, and by doing
> that, we should be covering most of the active community.
>
> This way you get edit access to the wikis once you have gained trust in
> the community. The only thing we need to tell people is that they should
> contribute to the community to get the edit access. I know this isn't
> the perfect solution, but it's better than nothing.

Hi everybody,

I think this suggestion by Pasi is a possible solution, the best one so far.

But there are other problems too - I guess technical problems or 
book-keeping problems. I am an Ubuntu member (as staff emeritus at the 
Ubuntu Forums). I can edit the Ubuntu wiki pages but not the Ubuntu help 
pages.

There is also a possible work-around: The Ubuntu Forums are able to keep 
a steady flow of new people into moderation to keep the task force big 
enough to fend off spammers and at the same time help users. And there 
is the Tutorials Forum

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=100

where I have been more active than in the Ubuntu help pages recently ;-)

But the wiki format is better for documentation, I wish we can get it 
available for 'real contributors' again.

Best regards
Nio