Well, I can only try with the things I can infer ...
The wiki is Media Wiki. You might learn some of the mechanics
from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages
Categories -- seem to just be keywords that you can add to
pages. From what I can tell, they can be anywhere in the
markup. You can have multiple categories for any page.
Moderation is probably in place to prevent vandalism. Near as
I can tell, you have to have one or more "edits" approved,
then (I think) the moderate constraint is removed (that was
what was inferred by Kevin's e-mail). (Indirectly, you can
look at the list of Active Users to see who currently has
no-moderate -- hint, I am not on that list as of this moment).
I don't know who the moderators are. It's not clear if this
can be granted to a sub-set of users. I'd guess that they are
all Eclipse Admins or staff folks, but that's just a guess.
There are a couple of categories of users. I couldn't guess,
beyond administrators what permissions who has.
I have no idea how moderate request notification works -- or
if there is even any notification.
I see, my one edit is still pending moderator approval -- so
apparently, someone else got in and added that (rendering my
proposed change moot now.)
We could start a how-to page if you like. My theory is, if
you create a page now, it will immediately be published as you
are now an "active"
user.
-- Ed
On 10/31/2018 12:12 PM, Bill
Shannon wrote:
Ed Bratt wrote on 10/31/2018 07:59 AM:
Discussion about Eclipse Wiki pages
- Dmitry raised the issue that all Eclipse wiki page
updates require a moderator to approve. For example, the
component release tracker wiki, for example, has an
edit-backlog as of this writing. Currently moderators
appear to be limited to a small number of community and
Eclipse members. We have requested additional approvers
be allocated so that we can get updates to the wiki
pages more quickly. Eclipse admins will investigate.
- Dmitry has requested that Jakarta EE be added to the
Eclipse Wiki home-page. As it is now, users must know
that there is a Jakarta EE category, or know the link:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Category:Jakarta_EE.
Eclipse admins have agreed and will add this link to
the Eclipse Wiki homepage.
Can someone please create a wiki page with the title "How to
add pages to the Jakarta EE wiki"? It was not obvious to me
how to do so, and I didn't do everything correctly. Surely we
want more people to add wiki pages so giving them a place to
start and some guidance would be really helpful. For example,
how should I name my pages? How do I use
Category:Jakarta_EE? Why do I have to wait for a moderator to
approve my page? How will I know when the moderator has
approved my page?
Thanks.
