[pydotorg-www] proposed edit to BeginnersGuide/Overview

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 11.07.2016 16:00, Neil wrote:
> Thank you, I appreciate it. I'll make the change later on. Should I report
> back to this list when I make a change or is that not necessary? I realize
> I'm a newbie so just trying to learn the ropes.

If you like to report back, please do. It's not a requirement,
though. The wiki records all changes anyway, so it's easy to follow
changes using this page:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/RecentChanges

> Neil
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:29 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at python.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 11.07.2016 05:22, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Neil <nta345 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Overview
>>>>
>>>> I hope it’s not really an Immutable Page or it’s going to be tough to
>> make
>>>> improvements if some pages are off limits.
>>>
>>> "Immutable" really just means "can't be edited by you in your current
>>> state". For instance, if you're logged out, *every* page is immutable
>>> (unlike Wikipedia, we don't allow anonymous edits). There are some
>>> pages that are legitimately protected (administrative ones), but I
>>> don't think this one should be. It has at the top "#acl All:read" -
>>> M-A, does this mean it's immutable to non-admins?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> (I can edit it.) And
>>> secondly, does it _need_ to be protected like that, now that we have
>>> editor restrictions elsewhere?
>>
>> Indeed. I removed that ACL. It was added by Andrew Kuchling a
>> while back to protect again vandalism.
>>
>> Neil: You should now be able to edit the page.
>>
>>> Neil, sorry about the hassles here! I hope this hasn't turned you off
>>> contributing. Normally it won't be like this!
>>
>> --
>> Marc-Andre Lemburg
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>> http://www.malemburg.com/
>>
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