[CentOS-docs] proposed changes option

Sun Apr 5 09:48:42 UTC 2009
Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>

lucian at lastdot.org wrote:
> Phil Schaffner wrote:
> > I'd like to weigh in on the side of a more open Wiki with fewer barriers
> > to contributing and/or editing.
> 
> That would be great! I'm sure many users wanted to contribute something 
> (not viagra links) at some point, but found the whole process 
> discouraging. I did.

You would still have to send a mail that you are fine with the license the
wiki is under - and so that someone can put you into a group which is allowed
to edit pages. But that would be *one* mail, no subscription to a mailing
list, no "show your documents first".

> If MoinMoin can do some captcha and export as rss the new pages/edits I 
> don't think it's going to be a problem to have them checked out.

Captchas are basically broken. 

> Been also checking the website "unification" progress... It's not going 
> well. I guess starting from scratch is out of the question?

And lose the stuff which is in the forums? No. All the rest can be discussed.
:)
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