[projectaon] Re: Possible switch of web hosting provider
- From: Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 13:20:28 +0000
Jonathan Blake wrote:
[X] everyone - test and give thoughts about new wiki
Right now, the Main and Sanctum groups are editable by anyone, but I
may institute a edit password in the future. It depends on how well
the security measures that I've instituted work:
Well, at the minute, all internal links (e.g. Help Us, Inner Sanctum) don't lead
anywhere, they go directly to the edit page screen. I guess this is because
those pages don't currently exist on the server? It was rather odd trying to
work out why it was happening.
* All external URLs must be approved by admin (me)
* There is an enforced list of blocked sites and phrases
* I am notified by email whenever a change has been made to the site
They seem like good precautions, but there are an awful lot of idiots out there.
How difficult is it to password-protect the pages? Can anyone other than
yourself edit and then password-protect the pages, i.e. making the pages
uneditable by any of us?
Oh, and any advice on how to FTP to the new server? I'm none too smart, I'm
afraid. ;-)
David Doty wrote:
Does this mean anyone will be able to edit the book text itself? After all of
the trouble so many people have done to root out even the teeniest typos, I
think letting anyone make changes is just asking for typos to be reintroduced
(not to mention the controverisal fixes becoming a mess of various people
trying to implement their own solutions).
So I'd say the book texts should still have to pass through an appointed editor to be changed, if you weren't already planning that.
I'd guess that the books would be exempt from the wiki, since they are generated
from an XML source. Changing any of the existing webpages wouldn't change the
source, and the changes would ultimately be lost. The idea of allowing automatic
addition of issues to the Editor Companion, however, is a good one; I currently
have almost a dozen E-mails filed away until their contents (often just one or
two issues per mail) are added to the Companion.
Of course, I'd personally like to see 17TDoI out the door ASAP. ;-)
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Simon Osborne
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