[pydotorg-www] proposed edit to BeginnersGuide/Overview

[Neil]

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.

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!
>
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> Marc-Andre Lemburg
> Python Software Foundation
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