Re: [RFC] Git Wiki Move

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 18, 2010, 20:46 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001182141270.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4B54ACBD.6000000@eaglescrag.net>

Hi,

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, J.H. wrote:

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> On 01/18/2010 04:03 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > These are the things left that I would like to see soon:
> > 
> > - add a link from the old Wiki (with rewrite rules)
> 
> I think the rewrites should be simple enough (the pages seem to line up 
> 1:1 easily enough) so all I would need to do is discuss this with Petr.

Wonderful.

> > - use whatever logo (anything is better than the sunflower)
> 
> It's easy enough to change just need to know which one to use.

See below.

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> > - enable anonymous edits
> 
> Anonymous edits will *NEVER* be enabled.  You are going to need to have
> an account and your going to have to verify it's e-mail to be able to do
> eits.  Completely anonymous edits are too much of a risk considering
> bots and spam and the abuse they can do.
> 
> Even then there is at least one case of a spammer actually going through
> and using a verified account.

That's good news. Every couple of days I would look through the recent changes, and sadly enough, there were many spammings on the GitWiki. No more!

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> > - a major cleanup of the broken autolinks and faulty formatting.
> > 
> > The latter point is probably the most tedious one, so I suggest that 
> > only those get a vote on the logo who fix at least 3 pages.
> 
> sound fair to me.

I think I qualify. My vote goes for http://henrik.nyh.se/uploads/git-logo.png, as it is really pretty. If you agree, and put in your vote, too, you can already set it until the bikeshedding has settled down ;-)

Ciao, Dscho