[documentation] Edits for everyone?

[Steven Peck]

I think would be an interesting experiment depending.  If I recall, there is discussion of a patch to allow for greater control of content reversion
http://drupal.org/node/38451

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From: documentation-bounces at drupal.org on behalf of Boris Mann
Sent: Wed 1/4/2006 8:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [documentation] Edits for everyone?



On 4-Jan-06, at 9:56 AM, Laura Scott wrote:


	I would hesitate to let anyone edit pages, as we've had enough snerts, spammers and trolls where having to clean up their mess in the docs themselves might prove to be more work than the gains might allow. But on this, I could not say for sure.
	


I don't think this is the case. I clean up "this is my test handbook page" every now and then (and sometimes drop people a line via contact asking them not to "test"), but people with registered accounts are pretty easy to catch quickly, and automating the editing handbook pages for spam...well, also quickly stopped, and unlikely to occur.


	As an alternative, what if role permissions were added such that regular (mostly) trusted documentation contributors would have those edit privileges? Doc moderators would still have to approve, but it might improve our workflow considerably. (I'm still at a loss how to suggest edits. I've used visible comments, emails here and issues on drupal.org, but each seems way out of the workflow to me.)
	


I think a big "edit this page" button and edit privileges for all users. Maybe we can turn this functionality on for a trial basis, and have a "documentation drive" forum post encouraging people to submit edits and/or get involved with the documentation list.

Right now, the default answer to complaints is...contribute. Make it easier to contribute (i.e. edit any handbook page), less excuses. Yes?

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