[documentation] Proposal for handbook maintenance automation

[Kieran Lal]

On 8/8/07, Angela Byron <drupal-docs at webchick.net> wrote:
>
> On 8-Aug-07, at 4:22 PM, Steven Peck wrote:
>
>
> > The handbooks are a wiki for people with appropriate rights.  There
> > are 98 of these people currently.  http://drupal.org/node/109372
> >
> > current from: http://drupal.org/handbook/new-contributions
> > "In the past week, a total of 25 handbook pages were created. Of
> > those, 18 were spam. Of the 7 added, 5 were created by people not on
> > the documentation team:"
> >
> > Before moderation was taken out, I did in fact open the handbook up to
> > editing to a wider role.  The moderation behavior was very annoying
> > but the simple fact is page vandalism was worse then the above
> > statistic.
> >
>
> The other problem is, "who is actually looking at these pages to see
> whether or not they've been vandalised?"


Ok, well we can add a most recent updates to the handbooks main page and
draw attention that way.  As far as I know /handbooks does get a lot of
attention.

The reason Wikipedia works so well is because documentation is ALL
> that they do. There are literally thousands of people eyeballing the
> equivalent of http://drupal.org/handbook/updates per hour. drupal.org
> has 98 people *in total* on the docs team (out of 160,000+ users),
> and maybe... what? 2 of them following that page with any degree of
> consistency?





Captchas are a barrier to people contributing, and I would argue
> moreso than a simple "I'd like to be on the docs team" post, which is
> all we currently ask. I no longer contribute content to
> groups.drupal.org because the captchas are such a frigging pain.
>
> Finally, docs team members also gain extra privileges, such as the
> ability to post images and upload files, so it makes sense to put
> *some* barrier to entry in front of them. Making "documentation
> maintainer" and "authenticated user" synonymous means that instead of
> posting links about viagra, spammers can now illustrate its effects
> with pictures. Sounds like fun.


Ok, well one proposal would be to come up to a automated role promotion.  If
you have made 3 posts anywhere on Drupal.org that haven't been unpublished
or deleted, after two weeks, you are now a documentation maintainer.  If you
have a CVS account and make regular commits or if you post issues you are
also now a documentation maintainer.

Could we make captcha only necessary for people who haven't received the
minimum promotion beyond authenticated user?

Feedback, other suggestions?

Cheers,
Kieran

-Angie
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