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User:Jukeboksi/Thinking aloud: Difference between revisions
on vandalism, VirtualGroup management and general security issues
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*Group/Keys - keys used for signing articles (optional) | *Group/Keys - keys used for signing articles (optional) | ||
*Group/OurVotes - every link from here to voting pages will be counted as a vote for the campaign | *Group/OurVotes - every link from here to voting pages will be counted as a vote for the campaign | ||
*Group/Members - All Group articles editable by those Users listed in this article | *Group/Members - All Group articles editable by those Users listed in this article. | ||
*Group/Affiliations - Listing affiliations with Companies and other organisations | *Group/Affiliations - Listing affiliations with Companies and other organisations | ||
*Group/FOAF - With sections Friend, Foe and Neutral. Links to other Groups and VirtualGroups with freeform explanations | *Group/FOAF - With sections Friend, Foe and Neutral. Links to other Groups and VirtualGroups with freeform explanations | ||
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*VirtualGroup/Keys - keys used for signing articles (optional) | *VirtualGroup/Keys - keys used for signing articles (optional) | ||
*VirtualGroup/OurVotes - every link from here to voting pages will be counted as a vote for the campaign | *VirtualGroup/OurVotes - every link from here to voting pages will be counted as a vote for the campaign | ||
*VirtualGroup/Members - All VirtualGroup articles editable by those Users listed in this article. All links from this page will be recursively followed to find out the total amount of members, real and virtual respectively. Possible links are: | *VirtualGroup/Members - All VirtualGroup articles editable by those Users listed in this article. Users may not remove other users from this, only themselves. When the last User removes her/himself from the page the VirtualGroup ceases to exist. All links to Groups and other VirtualGroups from this page will be recursively followed to find out the total amount of members, real and virtual respectively. Possible links are: | ||
**User | **User | ||
**Group | **Group | ||
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*Please note that the outline contains mainly only those articles and subarticles required to form hierarchies, not much on actual content | *Please note that the outline contains mainly only those articles and subarticles required to form hierarchies, not much on actual content | ||
*Looks like we are going to have [[The Consumerium Exchange|Three classes of votes]]: | *Looks like we are going to have [[The Consumerium Exchange|Three classes of votes]]: | ||
** | **WikiVote | ||
**Direct | **Direct Vote | ||
**Indirect | **Indirect Vote | ||
*Duplicate WikiVotes can occour by accident, by purpose and apparently by design eg. [[Group:Association X Country]] belongs to [[Group:Association X International]] | *Duplicate WikiVotes can occour by accident, by purpose and apparently by design eg. [[Group:Association X Country]] belongs to [[Group:Association X International]] | ||
**There must be rules on which of the votes gets excluded in this case. | **There must be rules on which of the votes gets excluded in this case. | ||
**The apparent approaches being top-down and bottom-up. | **The apparent approaches being top-down and bottom-up. | ||
**Which is better is a curious question. My guess suggestion is bottom-up so that "Local Votes" get included and "Federal Votes" get excluded | **Which is better is a curious question. My guess suggestion is bottom-up so that "Local Votes" get included and "Federal Votes" get excluded | ||
*This is in no way complete and there is likely a lot of opportunities for new kinds of vandalism | |||
Note that there could be multiple levels of (un)security available for committing changes to Wikinion: | |||
#Anonymous access | |||
#Access protected by password over HTTP | |||
#Access protected by password over HTTPS | |||
#Access protected by GnuPG signatures on save with self claimed keys | |||
#Access protected by GnuPG signatures on save with keys verified by a third party or Consumerium Vault | |||
#Access protected by GnuPG signatures on save with keys verified by third parties and Consumerium Vault | |||