On 19/07/10 20:52, finnius wrote: > I recently stumbled upon the project, strangely enough, through one of my > 'culture-jamming' sites that I frequent. I noticed that you were in the > process of transferring data from the old wiki to the new one. I went onto > the IRC channel, asked a bunch of general newbie questions, and asked about > the wiki. I offered my help and 'pos' said "go for it". > > Ok, now here's the thing...A number of pages have already been transferred > over. The problem is that the OLD wiki is still being added to. This creates > a problem of newer data not being represented on the NEW wiki. FIRST OFF, I > would suggest that someone with admin access LOCK the OLD wiki, and put up a > note on the main page telling people to please submit changes to the new > wiki. (YES, i understand that all the pages have not been transferred > over...I will get to that as quickly as I am able.) Perhaps a cut-off date > could be implemented, informing people that a final date for entries to the > OLD WIKI will be on such-and-such date, and that any further entries MUST be > directed to the new wiki, as the old one will be locked off. >
This is a good idea, I'll get around to it. Although, are you sure they are real edits? Last time I was active, the old wiki was mainly being spammed by bots. > I used to be an editor for "Uncyclopedia", so I do have some basic knowledge > of how a wiki works. I can, and will, start moving the wiki entries over as > quickly as I can. As for the kiddies vandalizing the pages, and the constant > reverts, I'm pretty sure you guys (right now) only get that when Freenet > happens to have an article published about it. You get an increase in new > members, and consequently, get a rash of vandalized pages....that comes with > the territory. IF OR WHEN Freenet becomes more 'mainstream' (lol), you will > have to deal with a barrage of kiddies wacking away at the pages (there is a > 'kiddie hour' almost every nite on Uncyclopedia, and reverts, huffing pages > and ip blocks are being done as quickly as possible by members). > The botspam has been pretty constant actually. It's a result of not having a captcha on the login. I haven't seen any vandalism by humans, but if that becomes a problem then locking things down would make sense. Not now though. > I mention this only because AFTER all the data has been moved, templates > created, pages prettied up, etc...you might want to consider locking a great > many of the pages off. Contributors can still add information thru the > 'discussion' tab, and it would be up to an Admin to change the locked off > pages with the new info....or not, I guess that would have to be a subject > for later. > > I digress...anyway, IF there is anything I need to know about the old wiki > pages/new pages...let me know. I won't touch anything for a few days, so > that the main people that have been doing the job (you know who you are) can > respond. I created a user-page on the new wiki...my name is Finnius there. > (Actually my name has been 'Finnius' since the old BBC days..omg i'm > OLD!...i am 'the original finn'...'the fishy one'...lol i have had many > nicknames over the years) > There's a bunch of notes on various guides to follow, apart from that it's still a WIP so feel free to make your mark upon it :) X > Richard (finnius) > > > > > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
