>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #310912. --> Reported by: [add1sun](https://www.drupal.org/user/65088) >>> <p>There has been a long discussion on the documentation team about opening up editing rights to handbook pages for all authenticated users. We weighed out the pluses and minuses and as a group agreed that it is worth giving it a try for a *one month* trial period.</p> <p>The original discussion started here: <a href="http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-August/006191.html">http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-August/006191.html</a> and has a summary here: <a href="http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-September/006248.html">http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/documentation/2008-September/006248.html</a>. There is agreement from not just significant members of the community (sepeck, webchick and myself) but also the docs team as a group. The team does realize that this will mean more work to monitor the handbook and we have two other issues that are designed to aid with that:<br> <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/webmasters/issues/308675" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#308675: Require revision log entry on d.o handbooks</a></span><br> <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupalorg/-/work_items/304667" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupalorg/-/work_items/304667</a></span></p> <p>So specifically what we are looking at is making the following changes:<br> - Add the "edit book pages" perm to authenticated user role<br> - Add the "revert revisions" perm to the doc team role</p> <p>(I also want to point your attention to <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/webmasters/issues/307650" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#307650: Delay edit/create perms for new users</a></span> which I think is a very good idea as well, but not deemed required for us to move forward with the trial period.)</p> <p>There is also a component in the Documentation project for Vandalism/Spam if folks find things that need attention.</p> <p>I have sufficient rights to implement the change myself so, if the webmasters agree, I can put this into effect once the two related issues are implemented. We will also make an announcement to the larger community explaining what is happening and outline the caveats in place: that this is a trial period and that not *all* pages will be editable due to format limitations - particularly in important areas of the handbook like Getting Started.</p> <p>The last bit I would like to do is remove people from the doc team role who have not made an edit to the handbooks in the last 6 months. (Killes ran some numbers for me a little while ago <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/infrastructure/-/work_items/287909" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/infrastructure/-/work_items/287909</a></span>.) There is no need for them to have elevated rights anymore if everyone can edit which was out main motivation to add people to the team to begin with. The doc team will hopefully take on more of an editing/curating/maintaining role and therefor we want people who are active and motivated to take on some extra responsibility. I would, obviously, need assistance from infra to remove old doc team roles once we get this rolling and I will open a separate issue for that later, as warranted.</p>