Hi, I've now performed the cleanup. There are now 360 registered user accounts in the wiki.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Kinkie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- /kinkie
