[pydotorg-www] proposed edit to BeginnersGuide/Overview

[M.-A. Lemburg]

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!

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