+1 from me. I was thinking to write something about this few days ago to this list, having observed quite a bit of SPAM on our wiki. I feel, this is a good initiative.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Michael Glavassevich <[email protected]>wrote: > If you watch the commits list you'll have noticed that there's been an > increase in the amount SPAM getting posted to our Wiki. Other Apache > projects are suffering lately too. > > Alberto and I have been cleaning it up, but I'm getting tired of seeing it > (almost) every day. :-) > > The solution projects appear to be using to fight this is to set up an > AdminGroup [1]. This means only a trusted group can post to the Wiki, > rather than having it wide open like it's historically been. We can grant > access to people who ask for it, so this isn't going to block legitimate > folks from being able to post content. > > I propose we ask INFRA to set up an AdminGroup with the following active > PMC members (Wiki user names): > > Michael Glavassevich > BorisKolpackov > AlbertoMassari > Mukul Gandhi > GarethReakes > > The infrastructure team would like to see that there's consensus with the > community before projects request this change, so I'm calling a vote. > > To start here's my +1. > > Thanks. > > [1] http://s.apache.org/moin-wiki-access-control > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Technologies and WAS Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: [email protected] > E-mail: [email protected] > <[email protected]> -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
