[pydotorg-www] proposed edit to BeginnersGuide/Overview

[Neil]

Well, hopefully my update to "runs everywhere" to everywhere on
https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Overview was a decent start. :-)

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 7:09 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at python.org> wrote:

> 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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> >>
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