Hi Gordon,
Am 08.06.2018 um 02:00 schrieb gordonisnz(a)gmail.com:
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:47 AM John
<phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You are going to kick yourself, users don't have the "edit" user right.
So - If i want people to add new content - How do they if they cant
edit or add pages (with approval of any changes). >
Whats the point in a wiki having users at all ?
I'm one of your new users - I just added a new account for testing. But I'm
entitled to agree with John, most of those Users on the very long list - though
having real sounding names - will be spambots out to fill up your nice new wiki
with trash your really do not want.
That's why the default setting in the config-file is so that normal users cannot
edit pages.
Either they can be manually approved by an admin and moved/added to another
group with edit rights (like editors) or you can also insert an approval level
bevor releasing the articles "into the open".
As you've just started with your wiki I'd simply recommend to delete the whole
installation (including all of those definitly unwanted users), set up again
with spam-safety-measures (see the link John sent) in place _before_ opening the
wiki to the world.
Good luck! :-)
Kate
If i want to promote someone as trusted or another level, i need to
know (in advance) that they can edit/add appropriate content instead
of spam.
If you want to reconfigure the email process you
will probably need to write
your own extension to do so. I would really recommend against that.
Why do you want a custom email process?
so that it doesn't overload my email limits - if theres lots of activity.
I'll do more research.
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