As far as I know the current setup of the wiki requires registered users to modify pages and those accounts are only handed out by Geoff. With that the number of potential vandals and spammers is practical zero.
So is there still a reason to have protected pages aside from 'it was configured this way when access permissions were set up different'?
When doing the most recent updates I stumbled over several pages that I was unable to change because of that.
Remove wiki pages from protection list
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Remove wiki pages from protection list
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Attached patches are released under GPL 2.0 or later.
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Re: Remove wiki pages from protection list
There are a bunch of old bot-registered accounts that I'm wary of giving free access to edit the wiki. Probably a bunch of pages could be de-protected, but not the front page at least.
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Re: Remove wiki pages from protection list
Can't you delete those permanently or don't you know which one is a 'good' account and which one is a spammer?Geoff the Medio wrote:There are a bunch of old bot-registered accounts that I'm wary of giving free access to edit the wiki.
Edit: Nevermind, I see what is the problem after searching a bit about mediawiki and user deletion.
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Attached patches are released under GPL 2.0 or later.
Git author: Marcel Metz
Attached patches are released under GPL 2.0 or later.
Git author: Marcel Metz
Re: Remove wiki pages from protection list
A solution that my project has implemented is to tie the wiki accounts to the forum accounts. We used this mediawiki extension to do it:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensio ... ntegration
(It says it is unmaintained, yet it still works for phpBB 3.0.x)
Then you can keep out the bots with the forum techniques for doing so - like custom profile fields [these work really well], more advanced captcha, etc. - and allow any forums user to edit the wiki.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extensio ... ntegration
(It says it is unmaintained, yet it still works for phpBB 3.0.x)
Then you can keep out the bots with the forum techniques for doing so - like custom profile fields [these work really well], more advanced captcha, etc. - and allow any forums user to edit the wiki.