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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> Cool. There see to be some deprecated pages there
> TestingAmpQA
> QA And Testing
> is it posible to remove no longer needed pages?

Fine by me - I don't know where you're seeing those or how to remove 
them, myself.

All I know is that when I thought I was changing the name of the page, I 
got a blank new page instead and no idea where the "old" page (not to 
mention the content I'd spent time putting into it!) went.
Strange behavior in my opinion...not user-friendly.

> There does seem to be some posible security features
> http://www.permaculture.info/wiki/index.php?n=PmWiki.Passwords

The most relevant line at the moment would seem to be:

"At the very least, even an open wiki should have a site-wide "admin" 
password and a site-wide "attr" password set in config.php."

Who's our wiki admin?

> What could be posible is the pages can be organised into groups
> we could have one group, say Specifications, which could only be
> modified by us, and another group Public which could be modified by
> everyone.

Yes, I think the "working" pages that we are using should be protected.
Not sure why we'd need a wide-open section for 'Public' but fine by me 
as long as our working pages are protected.

> Another security measure is to use the MailPosts feature
>     http://www.permaculture.info/wiki/index.php?n=PmWiki.MailPosts
> this causes an email to be sent whenever a page has changed.

If this sends a mail on every separate [Save] of a page edit, it is way 
more mail than I want to get.  My hacking about yesterday would have 
generated dozens of mails if that's how it works.

> I think this would be a great feature:
>     1) it allows us to easily correct any vandalism. If someone mucks up 
> a page then we will quickly see it, in an email, and be able to fix it 
> quickly.

I'd rather prevent vandalism in the first place, at least for our 
working areas (spec, QA/Test, etc.).  Nobody needs to be making changes 
there but us.

cheers,
John S.


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