Re: sudden spike in wiki registrations

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:48, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Hannes Magnusson >>> <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:03, Hannes Magnusson >>>> <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> It is very hard to detect which "php group" a person belongs to, our >>>>> karma system doesn't work like that. >>>>> >>>>> We can easily detect if an account is an php.net SVN account though. >>>>> And the wiki can tell you if a person has write access to that specific page. >>>>> >>>>> Most external users have assigned "write" groups, "qa", >>>>> "rfc", "web". >>>>> These are the people who have requested access to these areas. >>>>> >>>>> I was under the impression the vote plugin respected the write >>>>> permission acl to that page, so a user would need to have write karma >>>>> to that namespace to be able to vote. >>>>> Does it have no builtin functionality like that? >>>> >>>> Answering my own question; No, it doesn't. >>>> >>>> http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:doodle2#authentication >>>> >>>> -Hannes >>>> >>> >>> I checked the source, if the permissions are set correctly, then the >>> required code change is minimal: >>> in the php-wiki/dokuwiki/lib/plugins/doodle/syntax.php file we have to >>> modify the render and castVote methods to check >>> $this->isAllowedToEditEntry($fullname) and thats it. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ferenc Kovács >>> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu >>> >> >> of course the explicit group checking would be better, because >> currently we have votes under rfc namespace where some users have >> write access as they proposed/wanted to propose some rfc but they >> shouldn't . > > > I think we should be able to differentiate the voters manually this time. > But implementing those voting RFC rules before next time would be ideal. > > -Hannes > after some discussion on irc, we agreed that for a quick fix for the wiki we should only allow voting for the following groups: - phpcvs : this is a fake group, every @php.net user is part of it. - voting: this group isn't exists yet AFAIK, we should add everybody to this who are allowed to vote, bu don't have svn account. my patch is on gist: https://gist.github.com/1076035 if you think its fine, it could be commited, I don't have karma for the wiki. ps: I also allowed the wiki admins to access the voting features just in case. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu