[Linux-aus] wiki.linux.org.au accounts (was: Should Linux Australia change its name? : suggestions)

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Peter Lieverdink <peter at cc.com.au> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Joshua Hesketh <josh at nitrotech.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi John,
>> >
>> > I believe if you log in with your memberdb (ie your Linux Australia
>> > membership) details an account is set up for you.
>>
>> Yay that works.
>>
>> And it is now documented on the front page
>>
>> http://wiki.linux.org.au/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=historysubmit&diff=454&oldid=431
>>
>> It would be good if a sysop could document it at
>>
>> http://wiki.linux.org.au/MediaWiki:Loginprompt
>
> Done, thankyou :-)

There is a configuration issue which is causing edits by council
members to not appear in the recentchanges feed.  See all the bold 'b'
annotations in

http://wiki.linux.org.au/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&hidebots=0

See

http://wiki.linux.org.au/Special:ListGroupRights section "council"
which includes "Be treated as an automated process (bot)"

I suspect you want council members to be able to avoid the spam/flood
controls.  I doubt that is necessary, but if it is I suggest setting
up a flood flag which council members can grant themselves if/when
they are doing mass edits.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Flood_flag

-- 
John Vandenberg