How to get back access to the Wiki?

[José Antonio Rey]

Contributing to the Wiki has always been easy and straightforward. I am
sure that if you applied to the team, it would have taken less than a day
for you to get in.

The reason why we have such 'complicated processes' to get into the wiki
is, as Elizabeth mentioned, because of spammers. If you read back threads
from a couple months ago, you will understand how badly we were attacked.
It went off of the team's hands - it was impossible to control manually.

Dealing with these spammers was hard and time consuming. It was very tiring
for all of those involved, and I appreciate the resolution you gave to this
problem. I feel it is the most appropriate for now.

Jose

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 08:00 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 05:31:14 -0700, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> ><ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> >> is there an uncomplicated way to get back write access to all Wiki
> >> and help pages?
> >
> >The footer of every page links to
> >https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide which always contains up
> >to date information about how to get an account with editing
> >privileges (I'd rather not re-explain inline in this email, since that
> >wiki page gets updated, this email archive does not!).
>
> Thank you, I already was aware of
>
>   "Anyone can edit the Community Help Wiki. You just need a Launchpad
>   account (see /Registration) and be a member of the ubuntu-wiki-editors
>   Launchpad team." - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide
>
> which leads to
>
>   "Join Ubuntu Wiki Editors
>
>   Are you sure you want to join this team?
>
>   Since this is a moderated team, one of its administrators will have to
>   approve your membership before you actually become a member." -
>   https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wiki-editors/+join
>
> but this unfortunately doesn't fit to my understanding of an open
> community friendly Wiki at the moment.
>
> >It's great to hear that the Arch Linux community has the volunteer
> >resources to manage a spam-free wiki. Unfortunately we currently
> >don't. We're doing the best we can with the time, talent and resources
> >available to us.
>
> Most likely Ubuntu has a huger user base, than Arch Linux has got. I
> suspect the problem is, that accessing the Wiki already was too
> complicated, when just the Ubuntu One account was required, due to
> issues that required to repeatedly log in and because it often
> already took minutes to just log in one time.
>
> Anyway, I only wanted to verify if there's still a way to contribute to
> the Ubuntu Wikis in a more or less unproblematic way or not, so it
> doesn't require a discussion. It's simply not my understanding of Wikis
> maintained by a community.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
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