On 14/01/2013 10:31 a.m., Kinkie wrote:
Hi all,
sorry for hijacking the -dev mailing list for a wiki policy
discussion, it's however the most convenient forum to discuss this
(off)topic.
In the past months we have had some wiki-abuse. The write-access
policy we have since some time has prevented this from becoming a
serious issue, but in time the cruft of spammy accounts has started
creating a performance problem: we have now 28k registered wiki
accounts. Each of them requires some filesystem resources, which waste
space (not a big deal) but create a strain on the performance of the
server's filesystem. The result is slow page loads and starving of
resources the other activities of the server.
MoinMoin 2.0 (still a long way to go) will support email verification
upon registration; but the best MoinMoin 1.9.6 (the latest release)
has to offer is restricting the ability to create new accounts to Wiki
Administrators (currently: Adri, hno, RobertC, Guido, Duane, Amos and
me). I have implemented this (modulo implementation errors).
Adri formally resigned fom the Project, IMO he can be removed from wiki
admin.
The next steps, unless anyone has better advice, will be to send a
notification to the users mailing-list, and remove all user accounts
which do not belong to the Editors group. The only adversely-impacted
users will be those who have subscribed for change notifications but
do not belong to the editors group.
Can we grep the wiki data to locate those other user accounts?
Amos
