Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Hello, and Wiki vandalism
Bob Ippolito wrote: On 12/29/06, Uche Ogbuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just switched to a MacBook Pro for my primary dev box, so I guess I'll be hanging out here. I was trying to get started and went to the WIki, the FAQ in particular http://pythonmac.org/wiki/FAQ The page was spammed/vandalized on the 18th. I checked recent changes and a lot of pages got this treatment in mid-December,. I'm surprised they haven't been fixed, considering the importance of these pages. I know it's probably just a lack of volunteer time but I also know MoinMoin has some serviceable anti-spam features. I tried to fix the FAQ page myself reverting to the pre-spam version, but there seems to be some bug where preview shows the fixed version, but when I submit, it seems to be re-submitting the spam version. Really strange. Leaves me wondering what's the status of admin on the wiki. Thanks, and happy hols, all. The version of MoinMoin that's running on doesn't have anti-spam features. It's OLD. If someone with MoinMoin experience wants to take over managing the wiki I'd be all for that, but I can't set that up until after Jan 3. I've been away from the country all month (and am still away), and in general I don't have much time for the wiki. I definitely can't do anything about it until next year because I'm in Shanghai and the earthquake in Taipei basically took out the route between China and the US (~80% packet loss). The ISPs out here aren't smart enough or just don't want to pay extra peering costs so it doesn't seem like they're going to route around the problems. The undersea cables won't be fixed for weeks. On top of all that my MacBook Pro's power supply melted and they charge nearly twice what it costs in the US for one out here (infinitely more considering a replacement would be free at home), so it's hard to get at my SSH keys right now... even if I could make a working TCP connection to the states (if only Google had a proxy). Ouch. Sorry to hear of all those problems (I had heard of the undersea cable damage issue). I really have no cycles available to admin the Wiki, but I hope someone is able to step forward. I tried to do my little part by at least documenting what I learned and what worked for me: http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/2006-12-30/First_day_ -- Uche Ogbuji Work: The Kadomo Group, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.nethttp://kadomo.com http://copia.ogbuji.net Lead dev at http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Hello, and Wiki vandalism
Uche http://pythonmac.org/wiki/FAQ Uche The page was spammed/vandalized on the 18th. I checked recent Uche changes and a lot of pages got this treatment in mid-December,. Uche I'm surprised they haven't been fixed, considering the importance Uche of these pages. I know it's probably just a lack of volunteer Uche time but I also know MoinMoin has some serviceable anti-spam Uche features. I tried to fix the FAQ page myself reverting to the Uche pre-spam version, but there seems to be some bug where preview Uche shows the fixed version, but when I submit, it seems to be Uche re-submitting the spam version. Really strange. Leaves me Uche wondering what's the status of admin on the wiki. I just set up a login. I don't even get a revert link with I click the info link. Skip ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Hello, and Wiki vandalism
On 12/29/06, Uche Ogbuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just switched to a MacBook Pro for my primary dev box, so I guess I'll be hanging out here. I was trying to get started and went to the WIki, the FAQ in particular http://pythonmac.org/wiki/FAQ The page was spammed/vandalized on the 18th. I checked recent changes and a lot of pages got this treatment in mid-December,. I'm surprised they haven't been fixed, considering the importance of these pages. I know it's probably just a lack of volunteer time but I also know MoinMoin has some serviceable anti-spam features. I tried to fix the FAQ page myself reverting to the pre-spam version, but there seems to be some bug where preview shows the fixed version, but when I submit, it seems to be re-submitting the spam version. Really strange. Leaves me wondering what's the status of admin on the wiki. Thanks, and happy hols, all. The version of MoinMoin that's running on doesn't have anti-spam features. It's OLD. If someone with MoinMoin experience wants to take over managing the wiki I'd be all for that, but I can't set that up until after Jan 3. I've been away from the country all month (and am still away), and in general I don't have much time for the wiki. I definitely can't do anything about it until next year because I'm in Shanghai and the earthquake in Taipei basically took out the route between China and the US (~80% packet loss). The ISPs out here aren't smart enough or just don't want to pay extra peering costs so it doesn't seem like they're going to route around the problems. The undersea cables won't be fixed for weeks. On top of all that my MacBook Pro's power supply melted and they charge nearly twice what it costs in the US for one out here (infinitely more considering a replacement would be free at home), so it's hard to get at my SSH keys right now... even if I could make a working TCP connection to the states (if only Google had a proxy). -bob ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
