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.
