[General] Re: Wiki gardening instructions on the right side bar & includes

[Priscilla Chung]

Moving this conversation to the general list just to confirm some  
decisions on the wiki. This is in regards to if we need to lock down  
certain pages which will affect the OSAF Wiki globally, ie. the right  
side bar—and the answer is no. See response in-line:
On Apr 2, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Sheila Mooney wrote:

> On Apr 2, 2007, at 3:27 PM, Priscilla Chung wrote:
>
>> I purposely didn't send this to the general list because currently  
>> *anyone* is able to edit the right side bar 'announcements' area  
>> and changes will affect all pages. My goal for tomorrow's design  
>> session is to go ahead and lock down the side bar pages except for  
>> the Admins/content owners—but this might be something worth  
>> addressing about in tomorrow's meeting as well.
>>
>> In other words, maybe it's not such a big issue to lock down pages?
>
> I have no idea what the precedent is for this? I assume that  
> everything on a wiki is open and could be changed by anyone. Can't  
> people technically change the sidebar on our wiki today? Maybe they  
> just don't know the link to do it? It seems to me like there are 2  
> questions here.
>
> + Should we lock down any pages so only a certain group of people  
> can edit them?
So the answer to this is no. We want to keep all pages editable for a  
collaboration, but when we start to find frequent spamming or other  
mis-use behavior, we may bring up this up for discussion on the list  
again.

> + If we don't lock down pages, do we send out the instructions  
> about how to change this stuff to the general list like all the  
> other information or do we simply distribute this to the wiki area  
> owners.
So currently instructions, specifically related to global changes to  
content, side bars etc. are sent to all the content owners of the wiki.

Or someone please correct me if I didn't get that right?
Thanks, -Priscilla
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