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Test_Day namespace
by Karsten Wade 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

I don't recall a discussion of the [[Test_Day:]] namespace, so I'm a bit unclear how it works. Someone pointed out a vandalized page today, and below is the discussion I had with Adam. Ideas for solutions here? I don't like the idea of an endless supply of vandalizeable pages, esp. without a regular group patrolling the edits for vandalism. 10:23 < quaid> heffer pointd this out - https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Test_Day:2009-07-21_Fit_and_Fin… 10:23 < quaid> adamw: do you have a policy of moving [[Test_Day:]] pages to a requires-auth-to-write after the test day is done? 10:24 < quaid> that's how the [[FUDCon:]] space is managed 10:24 < adamw> quaid: no, not yet...how do you work that? 10:24 < quaid> ideally only one or two fudcon pages are write-by-all, we watch and revert spam as we go, then when the event is done, we move it to [[FUDCon/]] 10:24 < quaid> adamw: you should be able to just move the page back to the Main namespace by doing a rename (move) and taking out the colon 10:25 < quaid> as long as the categories remains the same, the redirect is automatically made for you 10:25 < adamw> mhhh...i don't like doing a bunch of renames 10:25 < quaid> normally, no 10:25 < adamw> yeah i know but you can wind up with nested redirects and stuff 10:25 < quaid> there is a special page for catching double-redirects 10:26 < adamw> there wouldn't be a fix in this case 10:26 < adamw> well, there would, but it'd require manual updating of the links...bah. hmm. 10:26 < quaid> really? a redirect wouldn't work? 10:26 < adamw> (we need to be able to have a page name with just the date that re-directs to the real page) 10:26 < quaid> hmm 10:26 < adamw> so Test_Day:2009-07-21 needs to be 'valid' as a redirect to the final name 10:27 < quaid> makes sense ... 10:27 < adamw> that way you can write a script or whatever that can reliably point to the test day page for a specific date 10:27 < quaid> are you on the (low traffic) fedora-wiki(a)lists.fedoraproject.org list? 10:27 < adamw> er, a _given_ date 10:27 < adamw> i don't remember, i'm on lots of lists :) 10:27 < quaid> heh 10:27 < quaid> I'll bring up this situation, if you are there you'll see, or we'll tell you to come join up 10:27 < adamw> we could swing that, it's just that we'd have to adjust the redirects for the date-only pages all the time too. which would be a bit more pain. 10:28 < adamw> not sure if doing the renames or fixing the vandalism is more trouble... 10:29 < adamw> also, we do want people to be able to post results after the day is done 10:29 < quaid> ah, hmm 10:30 < adamw> there's no reason not to allow that, really. and people do go back and look over the older pages. 10:30 < quaid> it just seems that the # of vandalizeable pages increases a lot over time 10:30 < adamw> i suppose if we were going to 'lock' them off again after a specified period we'd do it at the end of the release cycle... 10:30 < adamw> yeah, i understand 10:31 < adamw> it's a shame we can't have a limited-editing mode or something, heh -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41

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Re: Is it ok to edit this wiki template?
by Ian Weller 02 Aug '09

02 Aug '09

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 05:41:23PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Userpage/Infobox&actio… > > Can this be updated to include:? > skype: msn: > I don't see why not. Copy the code of the page into something under your user space, edit it there, transclude it into your user page (with {{User:Fasname/infobox test}}, make it the name of the page), double and triple check that it works, and then copy that code back into the actual template when you know it works. -- Ian Weller <ian(a)ianweller.org> "Why, a four-year-old could understand this report. Find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it." -- Groucho Marx, "Duck Soup"

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