> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) > Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:38:27 +0200 > From: Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Apertium-stuff] ConfirmAccount on Apertium Wiki > > Francis Tyers <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'd like to get some feedback on introducing a system of requesting > > accounts on the Apertium Wiki. At the moment, in order to get an account > > and edit pages, a user must: > > > > * fill out the registration form > > * write a Captcha > > * respond to an automated email. > > > > Even with the Captcha and automated email, we still get around 5-10 spam > > pages a day, and 10-20 spam accounts. Aside from having to delete these > > pages and block the users, this also fills up the RecentChanges. > > > > There is an extension[1] for MediaWiki which requires every account to > > be approved before being created. This is against the principles of > > Wiki, but would reduce work for the Wiki admins who are deleting the > > pages (at the moment mostly me, Unhammer and Bernard). > > > > What do people think ? > > +1, if it's possible to give several people the responsibility of > approving so that registrations happen quickly even if people go off the > grid (I've been waiting for confirmation for two years on the > thinkpadwiki :-/). > > -- > Kevin Brubeck Unhammer > > GPG: 0x766AC60C > > Of course, I also agree.
On several discussion lists of yahoogroups, it is necessary to send a motivation email before being accepted by a moderator. So, something like that should be done : asking newcomers to write a short text saying who they are and what they find interesting in Apertium. In addition, Apertium wiki is the only one I know showing new user account creation. According to the number of new accounts (event if it will decrease a lot with the approbation system), it is better not to show then on RecentChanges. Anyway, it will always be possible to see them on special pages : http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Special:Log/newusers For the present other administration operation (deleting pages and files and blocking users can stay shown). Another thing useful not to forget several spam pages : Presently, the new page list is limited to one week. I think it could be better to extend this length to one month. Especially for user pages which are less often watched by administrators. A lot of them contains a presentation without link with apertium or programming or linguistic studies and finish by a link on a website which has nothing to do here. Watching this afternoon, I found 4 new user pages since the 28th of May. I deleted 2 of them. Sometimes, it is worse. http://wiki.apertium.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ANewPages&namespace=2&username= http://wiki.apertium.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&limit=2&type=delete&user=Bech According to what say Kevin, of course, more than one person (every bureaucrat) should be able to accept newcomers. And according to the speed several of you answer on this mailing lists, it will not be difficult to validate their candidature in few hours. -------------------------------- Bernard Chardonneau (France) Phone : [33] 1 64 90 87 04 or [33] 9 72 36 32 90 (from Sept to June except holidays) GSM phone : [33] 6 49 95 13 95 (french scholl holidays, C zone) Multilingual websites for my free softwares : http://libremail.free.fr and http://libremail.tuxfamily.org http://cyloop.tuxfamily.org (mainly translated with Apertium) My general website (in french only) http://bech.free.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
