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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] sudden spike in wiki registrations
From: hannes.magnusson@gmail.com (Hannes Magnusson)

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:45, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 7/11/11 1:23 AM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> if somebody wonders why do we have those french guys registering on the
>> wiki:
>>
>> http://blog.mageekbox.net/?post/2011/07/10/La-r%C3%A9volution-est-en-marche-%21
>>
>> the author thought that anybody can vote who has wiki account, but
>> that is corrected now.
>> however judging from the responses and the number of registrations I
>> think we should publish something to the php.net frontpage about the
>> accepted voting RFC, and maybe rephrase or clean up the who can vote
>> part.
>>
>> for example can someone with svn account and 1 commit vote?
>
> I'd say for core features everybody with write access to the core, but then
> again, not sure about how to formalize that. Note that vote isn't meant to
> be the decision. At least I think it wasn't and shouldn't mean that. It
> should be a measure of if there's a consensus about certain thing or not.
>
> As for technical side, I don't know enough about how the auth system works
> to see if we can enforce it technically. If somebody with this
> knowledge is willing to help, please ping me and we can discuss how to
> implement this in docuwiki.

I thought I had pointed this out already.

AFAICT anyone with wiki account can vote. And anyone can get wiki account.

People with wiki accounts however cannot modify any content because we
have write restrictions on everything, so before this vote plugin came
along a wiki account was utterly useless without an admin explicitly
giving write karma.

-Hannes