Current wiki access status

[Chris Perry]

Morning all (UK time),

What Alan has written sounds sensible to me.

If someone wants to edit the community help wiki what are the
moderators going to ask for? Evidence of an association with the
Ubuntu community for a significant length of time (a year or more), or
if that's not available evidence of a significant contribution to the
Ubuntu community within the last year? Also, if the person wants to
edit the community help wiki to make a small change (eg correct one
line) presumably the moderators aren't going to add the person to
~ubuntu-wiki-editors just for that small change, they're going to
offer to make the change themselves?

Can we be honest and say briefly why access is no longer unrestricted?
(Because of recent attacks by spammers.)

Once we've decided how it's going to work, someone needs to update:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide

Do any other pages need to be updated? Once the pages are updated the
info will be (semi) public and anyone can read about it. From what
Pasi and Lyz have said about spammers we should assume that some
spammers will ask for access (hopefully a small number!).

Regards,

Chris.


On 13 June 2016 at 19:19, Alan Pope <alan.pope at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Thanks Lyz!
>

...

>
> Ok, here's the current state of play.
>
> Both wiki.ubuntu.com and help.ubuntu.com/community no longer use the
> Launchpad ~ubuntu-etherpad group for validating wiki editors. That
> team is now only used for validating etherpad users. Both the wikis
> are able to be edited by ~ubuntumembers and ~canonical people. Today
> we added another group called ~ubuntu-wiki-editors. The goal here to
> to allow non-Canonical, non-members to edit the wiki, for whatever
> reason. Obviously people should only be joining this team if they have
> a genuine need to edit the wiki. We will not be adding large groups of
> people to that team, unless we are 100% confident that bad actors
> can't subvert our processes and join that team to gain wiki edit
> (read: spam) privileges.
>
> Currently we have a very small number of admins of the team (i.e. just
> me) but could do with a couple more people. However I am concerned
> that we curate the admin list as carefully as we manage the list of
> members. So won't be adding a huge number, but enough to cover a bunch
> of timezones. We also need to be conscious not to burn people out with
> requests from bad actors flooding their inbox. Of course we also want
> to have timely responses to genuine requests for edits to the wikis.
>
> So we need to "internally" document and spread knowledge of how this
> all works without making it too much of a honey pot. (although clearly
> I'm aware me sending this mail to a public list doesn't help ;) )
>
> Questions/comments welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Alan Pope
> Community Manager
>
> Canonical - Ubuntu Engineering and Services
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