[Xastir] Administrative Note

[John Ronan]

On 12 Apr 2007, at 23:52, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 04:50:40PM -0400, we recorded a bogon- 
> computron collision of the <kg4ijb at xastir.org> flavor, containing:
>> Due to recent problems with the Wiki, I have made several changes  
>> that will
>> affect everyone that uses this resource.  No user will be able to
>> create/edit without having their email address validated and their
>> permissions changed to allow this.  Unfortunately, there are over 100
>> accounts in the database and I have no way of knowing which are ? 
>> valid?
>> users.  Users with validated email accounts can create ?talk? but  
>> they
>> cannot add or edit current pages.  If you are inclined to  
>> contribute to the
>> wiki (add pages), you will need to contact one of the wiki sysops  
>> to have
>> your permissions changed to permit this.
>
> This afternoon I went through the user list and added wiki-editing  
> privileges
> to every user who has already made contributions to the wiki.  That  
> is a very
> tiny fraction of the registered users.
>
Ta!
>
>> Much of this goes against my
>> belief of having an open living document, but alas, this is the  
>> world we
>> live in.
>
> I, too, am very sad to see the wiki have to be clamped down like  
> this, but
> at least with the three of us as sysops we should be able to get  
> people
> set up as wiki editors pretty quickly.
>
C'est la vie unfortunately.
> Those who are interested could look at the RecentChanges log to see  
> how
> much vandalism we were subjected to.  It went on all day, sometimes
> re-vandalizing pages minutes after I had fixed them.  Some people  
> need to
> get a life.
>
Robot based maybe?

I must check the 'LiveCD' page contents again, just in case the newer  
updates of unbuntu 6.10 have changed anything.

Thanks for the hard work guys.

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John Ronan <jronan at tssg.org>, +353-51-302938
Telecommunications Software &  Systems Group,  http://www.tssg.org