On 2016-02-26 18:22:37, Florian Snow wrote:
If you would like to support us in this effort, just send me an email so we can coordinate. I set up a pad with some suggestions [1]; please have a look. Please do not perform all of these changes yet; some of them need some more discussion. Feel free to leave any comments on the pad if you disagree with a point I made.
Hello Florian,
your proposal is well timed. I am in the process of preparing an update for the Wiki software. I was planning to migrate Wiki pages and to sort them into sensible hierarchy in the process.
Have a look at: https://wiki-test.fsfe.org/WikiAdmin
(the test host is runnning under the certificate of the productive host, hence the SSL warning)
Specific changes are: - We will have a navigation menu that can be edited as a Wiki page. - Functional pages, like Access Groups will have their own namespace (did you know, that the page FellowshipGroup has an accidental effect on the interpretation of ACLs) - We will not have wiki guest accounts anymore. Instead we have started to offer free volunteer fellowship accounts, which makes our work as system administrators a lot easier. Additionally wiki editors will be able to make pages anonymously writable. - Because of the former, I am setting up better spam protection. - I don't think we should retain the "auto admin group" feature, I find it confusing and it's probably causing unexpected effects. Hierarchical ACLs should be a sufficient replacement - I am thinking about putting a write protection on the top most hierarchy level. We will figure out sections in which to grant full permissions then. E.g. we would have a page like FellowshipGroups/ where each group can maintain their own subpage structure with self choosen Permissions and a page like TechDocs or FellowShipServices or whatever makes sense. This way new pages would automatically have to find a category, even if this categroy is simply "Misc". This makes it easyer to have overview pages with automatic listings etc.
In the long run we are planning to put the Wiki at a more prominent place within the zoo of fellowship services. Content that usually goes to the main website so far, will more likely find its way to the wiki in the future.
The proposals in the etherpad are great, I like all of them.