Hello, is it possible, to prevent that someone - except the user - can edit a userpage.
Regards Robert
Robert wrote:
Hello, is it possible, to prevent that someone - except the user - can edit a userpage.
This would create a channel for link spamming, vandalism, and harrasment which can't be cleaned up (except, presumably, by a privileged sysop account).
Generally I'd say that's unwise. The whole point of a wiki in contrast to other types of environments is the shared community responsibility of the users, which requires that everybody be _able_ to pitch in.
You could however probably achieve this by hacking up Title::userCanEdit().
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 7/17/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Robert wrote:
Hello, is it possible, to prevent that someone - except the user - can edit a userpage.
This would create a channel for link spamming, vandalism, and harrasment which can't be cleaned up (except, presumably, by a privileged sysop account).
Generally I'd say that's unwise. The whole point of a wiki in contrast to other types of environments is the shared community responsibility of the users, which requires that everybody be _able_ to pitch in.
I believe he means that User:Bob can only be edited by Bob (and sysops).
-- Jamie ------------------------------------------------------------------- http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/ Thank you to JosephM for inviting me to Gmail! Have lots of invites. Gmail now has 2GB.
Jamie Bliss wrote:
On 7/17/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Robert wrote:
Hello, is it possible, to prevent that someone - except the user - can edit a userpage.
This would create a channel for link spamming, vandalism, and harrasment which can't be cleaned up (except, presumably, by a privileged sysop account).
Generally I'd say that's unwise. The whole point of a wiki in contrast to other types of environments is the shared community responsibility of the users, which requires that everybody be _able_ to pitch in.
I believe he means that User:Bob can only be edited by Bob (and sysops).
That's what I responded to, yes.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hello,
Jamie Bliss schrieb:
On 7/17/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Robert wrote:
Hello, is it possible, to prevent that someone - except the user - can edit a userpage.
I believe he means that User:Bob can only be edited by Bob (and sysops).
-- Jamie
Yes, that´s the way i meant. I think, it could be a difference between wiki-information-pages (open for all or registered users) and my user-page. this could/should a site where I can place only informations about myself, not edited by someone else (except sysops). But that is also question of wiki-philosophy.
My question is, do you know a script which can do this?
Regards Robert
On 17/07/05, Robert r_lender@yahoo.de wrote:
But that is also question of wiki-philosophy.
As Brion wisely spotted, it's more than philosophical, since it creates a safe-haven for users to leave content which would otherwise be quickly cleaned away: be it defamatory, illegal, or just a whole load of spammy links designed to fool Google et al.
My question is, do you know a script which can do this?
As Brion also said:
You could however probably achieve this by hacking up Title::userCanEdit()
by which he means the function "userCanEdit()" in the file "includes/Title.php"; happy hacking :)
My understanding of the proposal is that sysops would still be able to edit user pages. No "safe-haven" for google-flooding or other miscreations.
-- Joshua
On 7/18/05 9:31 AM, "Rowan Collins" rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/07/05, Robert r_lender@yahoo.de wrote:
But that is also question of wiki-philosophy.
As Brion wisely spotted, it's more than philosophical, since it creates a safe-haven for users to leave content which would otherwise be quickly cleaned away: be it defamatory, illegal, or just a whole load of spammy links designed to fool Google et al.
My question is, do you know a script which can do this?
As Brion also said:
You could however probably achieve this by hacking up Title::userCanEdit()
by which he means the function "userCanEdit()" in the file "includes/Title.php"; happy hacking :)
Joshua Yeidel wrote:
My understanding of the proposal is that sysops would still be able to edit user pages. No "safe-haven" for google-flooding or other miscreations.
Allow me to repeat what I said earlier:
This would create a channel for link spamming, vandalism, and harrasment which can't be cleaned up (except, presumably, by a privileged sysop account).
Generally I'd say that's unwise. The whole point of a wiki in contrast to other types of environments is the shared community responsibility of the users, which requires that everybody be _able_ to pitch in.
You could however probably achieve this by hacking up
Title::userCanEdit().
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On any wiki with such an editing-restriction policy, garbage in user pages cannot be cleaned up by regular users. This harms the ability of the wiki to 'self-heal' in response to incursions. Increasing reliance on a small number of privileged accounts decreases the power and community involvement of everybody else.
Sysops are a scarce resource. On many wikis there are very few such accounts, and days or weeks can quite easily pass before one checks the recent changes. On many wikis there are none (whether effectively or completely).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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