On 03.06.2014 14:06, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:05 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >> FYI: I've renamed the group page to EditorsGroup. That's a better >> fit for what we intend to use it for. >> >> If people show a good track record they can then be moved on >> to the TrustedEditorsGroup, which removes the need to enter >> textchas. > > I hope this works out well. It'll reduce the drive-by contributions > (no matter how good you are at empowering people who ask, the very > fact that they have to ask is a turn-off), but all that does is back > down the main boast of a wiki - most web sites have a LOT more hoops > to jump through before random readers can edit.
Looking at the changelog of the wiki, most people who edit pages on the wiki are regular editors. > If this does reduce spam significantly, it might be possible to > eliminate textchas altogether; just put people straight into > TrustedEditorsGroup, and depend on the spammers being uninterested in > actually waiting for promotion (and probably being obvious anyway). As > we've seen, the determined spammers aren't put off by them for long. Yep. I think we should have a policy to add people who we know directly to the TrustedEditorsGroup. Makes life a tad easier for them. We might even proactively add them to that list by looking through the recent changes log: https://wiki.python.org/moin/RecentChanges Hmm, I'll do that now... -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jun 03 2014) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2014-05-28: Released mxODBC.Connect 2.1.0 ... http://egenix.com/go56 2014-07-02: Python Meeting Duesseldorf ... 29 days to go ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www