I agree that it's getting overwhelming lately. MyFaces is the last ASF Moin wiki I get updates from where these measures haven't been taken. +1 to get this set up.
Matt On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com>wrote: > My recommendation is that we set up an AdminGroup, probably with all > committers in it. > > Then we add additional people to the ContributorsGroup as desired. > > > http://wiki.apache.org/general/WikiFrequentlyAskedQuestions > > http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm > ============= > per wiki access control - tighten your wiki just a little, benefit just a > lot > > Long sub-title for a fairly long subject. > > The MoinMoin wiki is very configurable, more so than some might think. > Of course, wikis are meant to be open, for complete and utter open > collaboration. That is appreciated. However, there are some that would > like a balance between open wiki and having to spend time cleaning up > spam each week. Times change, and the reality is, spammers are here > and in greater numbers than before. What can we do? Well, here is a > suggestion - and one that can be easily implemented and takes but 2 > minutes (for infra) to set up. > > Have your project wiki editable only by a custom trusted group - that > need not be committers only - it can in fact still be anybody who > wants to edit your wiki, they just need to ask one time for edit > access and thats it. Is this an incovenience? To ask once for access, > I don't think so. After all as a potential contributor to your wiki > you (project) will already be conversing with the potential > contributor via the mailing lists right? How much pain is it to add > someone to the custom trusted group once it has been set up? , no pain > at all, a member of the projects AdminGroup edits one wiki page, adds > the users WikiuserName to the bottom of the list and save the page! 10 > seconds maybe and your done. For the amount of times you will have to > do that as opposed to the amount of times you spend cleaning up spam - > you work out which is better. > > The spamassassin wiki is a good example - those in the project wikis > AdminGroup can add folks to the projects ContributorsGroup and that's > it. How much spam has spamassassin received since this was setup ? > Zero, Zilch, Nil, Nada. > > Remember also, any page can have its own access control which > overrides and per wiki and per farm defaults - This page does just > that, as does LocalBadContent and BadContent pages. > ============= > > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Probably it's time to enable some kind of protection for the wiki. > > > > I've been hoping to avoid that, but the amount of spam the past two > > weeks has finally exceeded my willingness to continue fixing by hand. > > > > Is anyone who is subscribed to infrastructure willing to look into > > this? If no takers, I guess I'll sign up and see what can be done. > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Cagatay Civici > > <cagatay.civ...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does anyone know how can I unsubscribe from wiki as it is full of spam > >> everyday. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Cagatay Civici > >> PrimeFaces Lead > >> www.primefaces.org > >> >
