On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Dimi Paun <d...@lattica.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 14:07 +0800, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > > Actually if there are a lot of user account creation every day in the > > Wine wiki then there is something wrong with it. There are not that > > much Wine developers and probably some active testers/appdb > > maintainers, who else could pretend to have a user account in the Wine > > wiki? > > I don't think we have all that many. The wiki is up for a few years, > and we have <2700 accounts, I'd suspect most of them are valid accounts. > > If spammers would create them automatically, we would have see > a lot more I'd think. > > > > Moreover it will add additional maintenance > > > burden on our part to keep the captchas operational. > > > > Isn't that an one time effort? > > Not sure -- if this is not integrated in the base version, > it will create problems every time we need to do an upgrade. > Moin is great, but they break things all the time between > versions, it's already a pain to do the upgrades... > > -- > Dimi Paun <d...@lattica.com> > Lattica, Inc. > > > > Why are we using Moin anyways? I know Fedora used to use Moin and they moved off of it for their wiki, and I honestly think that perhaps WineHQ needs to as well.
