From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>
To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
CC: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: We need an Advocacy wiki
In-Reply-To: <200708031533.39996.josh@agliodbs.com>
Date: Sat,  4 Aug 2007 13:56:31 -0000
Message-ID: <a5b9f5a05b5dd032d31c3185669fb093@biglumber.com>


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> We need to set up an Advocacy wiki with more liberal permissions.  I've 
> been trying to use the developer wiki for that purpose, but it's just not 
> set up for people to add themselves so that they can do things like sign 
> up for shifts at a booth.

I'm still not sure why we need two wikis - we are a transparent organization, 
after all, and we have enough brains to separate the advocacy pages from the 
development pages, with Categories if need be. We can also discuss changing 
the wiki permission scheme, but opening it up to anyone is generally a bad idea 
unless, like Wikipedia, you a) are willing to put up with vandalism and 
general subtle mischief and b) have the critical mass of watchers to keep (a) 
to a minimum. The experience of the interactive docs indicate that we do 
not have that mass yet, and I am reluctant to go that route anyway for 
public-facing pages that represent the project via a postgresql.org address.

> So we need a wiki which works the normal way; anyone registered can edit.

Not sure what your definition of normal is; that depends on what you mean by 
"registered". If it means just creating an account via web form, that's 
harldy an impediment to vandalism. We can certainly give more people the power 
to grant write-access to wiki accounts, if that's the perceived hold up.

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