Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk
Just ask for help looking after the wiki then.
That's not funny. I've been asking this list periodically for help looking after the wiki, since before it appeared in December 2001.
(Thanks to everyone who has helped in the past, but people move on, some people only work on new things and more help is needed now.)
[...] easier than having to send patches etc. which may or may not get applied in a timely fashion. I'd given up on editing the site a *long* time ago as the current system doesn't work.
Why is it the professional sysadmins who are complaining loudest about the site? Surely you should have fewer problems with patches and maintainers than the writers who have successfully contributed to the site? I don't think this is about practical editing. I think this is about lust for shiny new toys, control and flaming someone you don't like. Please use something other than the core ALUG info pages as your plaything.
Even if we made a subset of the site a wiki that requires authorisation
[...]
People seem divided about wikis and passwords. For now, I'll take up Al's renovation offer, because I think that can be done quickly, unless there's a good reason not to.