FYI: new Open edX Development wiki space

[Andy Armstrong]

We recently performed an audit of our Confluence wiki spaces, and discovered that a large amount of our best material is not being indexed by search engines because access is only permitted to registered users. In particular, both the Architecture and Engineering spaces had such a restrictive access scheme.

For the Architecture space, we decided that the majority of the material should be considered open, so we changed its permissions to allow anonymous access. For the Engineering space, on the other hand, the majority of pages were for edX internal use so we have changed its permissions to reflect this.

With this change, there was a lot of great content that would have been hidden, so we have moved it to a new open space for Open edX developers:

https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/OpenDev/Open+edX+Development

All the developer documentation we could find in other spaces has been moved here, and so should now be accessible to everyone (search engines and anonymous users alike). Our intention is to continue making as much wiki content as we can default to open access.

Please let us know if you have any feedback on this change, or if you have wiki pages that you have been using that are no longer available to you.

Thanks,

 - Andy

P.S. We are also in the process of deprecating the edx-platform GitHub wiki, and so over the next few months that content will be migrating into the new development wiki.

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Andy Armstrong

edX | UI Architect  | an...@edx.org  

141 Portland Street, 9th floor

Cambridge, MA 02139

http://www.edx.org

[Pierre Mailhot]

Thank you Andy. Even if I already had an account, this will be extremely useful. Already bookmarked.