Current wiki access status

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Alan,

On 2016-06-21 18:21, Alan Pope wrote:
> This is not a permanent solution. The ultimate goal is to move away 
> from Moin, probably to MediaWiki. However, we are where we are right 
> now, as that migration won't happen this week.

No, probably not. And even if the wiki software is exchanged in the
future, won't the basic issue with separating contributors from vandals
remain?

Probably we'd better prepare ourselves for this solution to be in place
for quite a while.

> It's not so much having procedures. The procedure is simply to make 
> sure the applicant is a real Ubuntu contributor. As I said before
> I'm not going to publicly outline all the ways in which people fail
> that test. Simply because real bad actors will do whatever they can
> to circumvent them.

Ok. But I see a need to provide a way for editor candidates to justify
their applications to join ~ubuntu-wiki-editors.

A real example: A member of the Swedish LoCo since 10 year or so would
like to put up a tutorial in the section of wiki.ubuntu.com for the
Swedish LoCo. A few weeks ago I let him know about the problem. What
should I tell him now? "Click the join button"?

If he does, the admins of ~ubuntu-wiki-editors will see a LP homepage of
a user with zero karma and one team membership (the Swedish LoCo). They
won't see that he has been an active support contributor locally for
several years and is a trusted member.

One possibility is that I ask him to *also* post a few lines via the
"Contact this team's admins" form, where he can for instance post a link
to his posting history in the forum of the Swedish LoCo, or maybe state
me as a reference.

But the main issue is: What's our message to new community members? The
solution we now launch needs to include some guidelines on how to show
that you are trustworthy. Would it be an option to say:

"Click the join button. If you are new to the community, post also a few
lines to the admins of ~ubuntu-wiki-editors with the kind of edits you
would like to do, a summary of your contribution history and/or mention
someone who can vouch for you."

-- 
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj