Good. I'll cook up a mail to squid-users, explaining the situation and what to do for users who wish to retain their userid. I am tentatively scheduling the cleanup for next weekend.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Alex Rousskov <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/15/2013 03:12 AM, Kinkie wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Alex Rousskov >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 01/14/2013 02:47 AM, Kinkie wrote: >>>>> Can we grep the wiki data to locate those other user accounts? >>>> >>>> Yes, I found out that we can. It's 129 users total. >>>> Amended plan: create a page to explain the account policy; post to >>>> squid-users; preserve those 129, the editors, the admins, and whoever >>>> answers from squid-users; remove everyone else with no other warning. >>>> >>>> Eliezer, Alex; you are right that it'd be nice to warn each individual >>>> user personally, but: >>>> - it's 28k of them. Out of those, I estimate 8k to be real (and the >>>> estimate is VERY generous), at least 20k are drive-by spam attempts >>>> - many of the users have probably fake or spoofed email addresses >>>> (remember, no address verification is done), so the mail would be >>>> unexpected to them, and even if only 10% answered, it's an excessive >>>> amount of work. >>>> - recreating an user account is a trivial matter (even though it now >>>> requires an admin's intervention) >>>> >>>> I will keep the old user accounts around in case they are needed. >>>> >>>> Does the plan fly with you guys? >>> >>> >>> If I understand your plan and estimates correctly, you want to >>> inconvenience a few thousand of legitimate users, and we could expect a >>> few hundred of those users to come back at you so that you can manually >>> re-enable their accounts? In this case, I hope your estimates are wrong >>> both because I do not think we should inconvenience so many without a >>> very good reason, and because I do not want you to spend so much time on >>> handling those manual cases. >>> >>> Can we remove non-editing users that did not register to receive any >>> notifications? If yes, how many users will be left after that? >> >> Hi Alex, >> I suspect we are saying the same thing: I wouldn't really >> inconvenience users. Registering for an account on the wiki allows for >> a few things: >> - subscribe to page notifications >> - customize quick-links in the user's profile >> - with additional authorizations, edit the wiki >> >> I would not touch users which have done legitimately any of the above >> (some users have tried to XSS the wiki or to use their profile for >> link-spam and would be removed). >> After the cleanup, the wiki would contain about 400 registered users; >> 25334 users would be reverted to anonymous (doing so would have a >> performance benefit for them, as they could use cached pages, while >> registered users can't). I expect that the number of wrongly removed >> users be in the units, a few tens at most. > > Sounds good to me. > > Alex. > > -- /kinkie
