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Confluence is highly configurable in the way different people can view and edit pages.
The FAI wiki is set up to work entirely on group permissions set on spaces. Individual permissions on spaces or pages within spaces should not be used.
The only exception is for Personal spaces which are controlled by the individual owner of the space.
Typical setup for a space.
This is the CIMA Internet Presence Working Group space.
wiki-administrators
must ALWAYS be given full permission for all spaces. If they are not, then this will be altered by an administrator.
cima-delegates
In this case it is a CIMA space, and the group cima-delegates, which contains all CIMA delegates who have permission to view and comment.
cima-internet
Contains the members of the CIMA working group responsible for this space. (probably these are also all cima-delegates, but it could include other co-opted members.) They have permission to do almost anything in the space.
Logged in people not CIMA delegates
if you wanted people outside of CIMA to be able to comment in this space then you could add the group confluence-users which contains everyone with a valid login to the wiki. They should have the same permissions as cima-delegates have here.
Individual users
Note that no individual users have permissions for this space. This is a FAI protocol and makes overall administration easier. If an administrator finds any individual permissions anywhere in the wiki (apart from Personal spaces) then they will be removed.
Anonymous
The group anonymous is anyone not logged in. CIMA has chosen the policy of using this wiki as a tool to show the World what it does, so generally anonymous access is set to view in all CIMA pages.
It is strongly recommended anonymous users are not given any further permissions as this could easily lead to abuse. Wiki administrators will generally disable any anonymous permissions they find beyond just view.
Additional Groups
If you think you will require additional groups, please send a request to wikiAdmin@fai.org