Re: sudden spike in wiki registrations

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:03 PM, 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? > > -Hannes Imo the best would be to have the voting under a different namespace, and create a group for that. the @php.net users would be by default in it, and we can add others manually. I think that the voting plugin either supports checking the restrictions or would be easy to extend it to support that. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu