[Fsfe-ie] Wiki noise (administrivia)

[Justin Mason]

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Glenn Strong writes:
> On Tuesday, May 24, 2005 at 10:48 -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
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> > Glenn -- any chance it could use something like
> > http://jmason.org/software/patches/moin-1.2.2-jm-commitmails.patch:539 ?
> > it's really much more useful as it sends the full diffs of changes
> > to the list, which is a good way to spur discussion.
> 
> The patch looks fine to me (it's against an earlier version but I can
> see how to hand-apply it in our version). I'm slightly concerned about
> sending a large volume of unwanted mail to this list (there were 21
> edits today, although some of them were flagged trivial and didn't
> generate any mail).

Yeah, it can be a little noisy.   That being a problem depends on the list
in question; if it is, maybe a new list is the best approach.

My take on it is that the wiki becomes an extension of the list, in a way
- -- discussions on the wiki get "mirrored" to the list, and can fork off
into list-only chats.  in my opinion it's very useful.

> It's definitely true that getting the diffs is more useful than just
> seeing the one-line edit comment (which is why I get email for every
> edit).
> 
> (sidebar - I'm only guessing at the use from the example - which has
> your email address as the target - but couldn't you just subscribe to
> "all pages+trivial edits" to get the same effect? Apologies if I've
> misunderstood what it does)

Unfortunately that doesn't protect against spam or malicious edits;
an editor can "silence" those change messages.  they can't silence
these ones.

- --j.
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