Most productive edits come from regular contributors or members of the community. Most drive-by edits come from spammers. In fact, there are some spammers with genuine accounts, who make very purposeful and directed edits to inject links inconspicuously.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Pepijn de Vos <pepijnde...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I wonder what the demography is of contributors. Are they all contributors > and list members, or is there a reasonable portion of users that just walk > by, fix something and walk on. > > On Oct 21, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > > > Yeah, I don't think we need a Procedure™ in place for this. > > > > Basically, as long as a wiki admin adds you to the contributor list, > you're > > good to go. How you reach out to that admin, or how they find out about > your > > request, is unimportant. We should present plenty of options for people > to > > contact one of us. > > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Oct 21, 2011, at 18:57 , Noah Slater wrote: > >>> > >>>> Sounds good to me. > >>> > >>> "Open a JIRA to get a wiki account" sounds very bad to me. > >>> > >>> I understand we gotta get the spam under control, but asking > >>> people to sign up in two places and put a potentially long > >>> manual setup process will kill almost any contribution energy. > >>> Heck, I try to avoid the wiki as much as I can as is. > >>> > >>> <insert handwavey suggestion to a better alternative> > >>> > >>> (I got nothing for now apart from moving to a better wiki, sorry) > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> Jan > >>> -- > >>> > >> > >> I agree with Jan about multiple signups. I'd say an email to any list > >> or any IRC request is more than enough to get wiki edits is fine. > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> > >>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Benoit Chesneau <bchesn...@gmail.com > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> On Friday, October 21, 2011, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> > wrote: > >>>>>> To JIRA you mean? > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> yes > >>>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Benoit Chesneau < > >> bchesn...@gmail.com > >>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org > > > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>> Hey, > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> On advice from Gavin McDonald, I'd like to suggest that we lock > down > >>>>> the > >>>>>>>> wiki to a list of pre-approved users. To get approved to make > edits, > >>>>> you > >>>>>>>> would submit a request to one of the mailing lists or to one of > the > >>>>> wiki > >>>>>>>> admins or committers. That's it. It should remove the need to > >> protect > >>>>>>> pages > >>>>>>>> like the "in the wild" stuff and the people on the couch. Other > >>>>> projects > >>>>>>>> have implemented this and they get absolutely no spam as a result. > >>>>>>>> Infrastructure suggested we move to it, and I wanna see what > people > >>>>> think > >>>>>>>> about it. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> More info here: > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> +1 > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Maybe approval requests could also be submitted as tickets? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> - benoit > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >
