[MinnowBoard] Minnowboard.org wiki access/terms of service

[John 'Warthog9' Hawley]

The TOS were only being used and/or presented by the confirm account
module, they've been disabled.  The website continues to fall under the
default CC-BY-SA.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On 04/03/2016 09:17 AM, Bill Traynor wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 3 Apr 2016, Bill Traynor wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello.  I started to set up an account at
>>>> http://wiki.minnowboard.org/Special:RequestAccount
>>>>
>>>> But the Terms of Service page is blank:
>>>> http://wiki.minnowboard.org/MinnowBoard_Wiki:Terms_of_Service
>>>>
>>>> And setting up an account requires agreeing to those terms, which will be
>>>> filled in later.  That makes me a bit reluctant.
>>>
>>>
>>> To request an account you don't actually have to read the ToS, you
>>> just have to tick the box that says you did.  Are you saying you're
>>> concerned that there are no terms of service at all and would like
>>> them filled in?
>>
>>
>> Yes.  It's not just an agreement that they have been read, but an agreement
>> to abide by them.  Having these blank is not exactly like signing a blank
>> check, but it leaves room for unhappy misunderstandings later.
> 
> OK, well, I'll leave that to John to complete.
> 
>>
>>>> There is no direct admin contact point listed, so I have joined this list
>>>> in
>>>> the hope that it's the right place to ask.
>>>
>>>
>>> On any wiki using MediaWiki, you can always find the admins on this page:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.minnowboard.org/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop
>>>
>>> In this case, the admin you'll want to contact is warthog9, although
>>> he will likely respond to this email.
>>
>>
>> Excellent!
>>
>>>> Could the ToS be filled in?  Or I can report bugs in the wiki here, if
>>>> desired.  Like the links to Google+, Facebook, and Twitter on the Get
>>>> Involved page have trailing pipe symbols that make them 404...
>>>
>>>
>>> All of these links work fine for me.
>>
>>
>> The ones at the bottom of http://wiki.minnowboard.org/Get_Involved ?
>>
>> Firefox 45 gives me a 404 for these until I remove that vertical bar at the
>> end:
>>
>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/107232752308803303026/+MinnowboardOrg/posts%7C
>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/MinnowBoard/388667897899215%7C
>> https://twitter.com/MinnowBoard%7C
> 
> Ah, I thought you meant the left nav links.  Anyway, I fixed the broken links.
> 
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