Re: sudden spike in wiki registrations

about the fix, instead of "only registered users", we have to add group support, so we can add php-src/doc/etc. to it and manually add external and approved persons. If anyone has time to do it, please go ahead, code is in SVN. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Hannes Magnusson > <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:45, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> On 7/11/11 1:23 AM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> if somebody wonders why do we have those french guys registering on the >>>> wiki: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://blog.mageekbox.net/?post/2011/07/10/La-r%C3%A9volution-est-en-marche-%21…} >>>> R(VæK)rHfI8 >>>> >>>> the author thought that anybody can vote who has wiki account, but >>>> that is corrected now. >>>> however judging from the responses and the number of registrations I >>>> think we should publish something to the php.net frontpage about the >>>> accepted voting RFC, and maybe rephrase or clean up the who can vote >>>> part. >>>> >>>> for example can someone with svn account and 1 commit vote? >>> >>> I'd say for core features everybody with write access to the core, but then >>> again, not sure about how to formalize that. Note that vote isn't meant to >>> be the decision. At least I think it wasn't and shouldn't mean that. It >>> should be a measure of if there's a consensus about certain thing or not. >>> >>> As for technical side, I don't know enough about how the auth system works >>> to see if we can enforce it technically. If somebody with this >>> knowledge is willing to help, please ping me and we can discuss how to >>> implement this in docuwiki. >> >> I thought I had pointed this out already. >> >> AFAICT anyone with wiki account can vote. And anyone can get wiki account. >> >> People with wiki accounts however cannot modify any content because we >> have write restrictions on everything, so before this vote plugin came >> along a wiki account was utterly useless without an admin explicitly >> giving write karma. > > Yes, hence why I said we have to fix that in the moodle plugin. But > who can vote is clearly define. Now, I'd to ask wiki admins to do not > accept random accounts for the fun to accept them. Thanks. > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org > -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org