On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Myrna van Lunteren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Kim Haase <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm guessing it's would-be spammers trying to set up a legitimate-looking >> URL. Thanks for continuing to delete the pages (to whoever is doing that). >> >> Kim >> >> >> On 3/29/2013 8:26 AM, Rick Hillegas wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone know why we are seeing these changes to the wiki? Thanks >>> > > Kim is right. > There is/are manual spammers who are creating these. The automated > spammers cannot cope with answering the question, but at this point, > our wiki is open to anyone...and the answers to the questions are > easily found. > > After the first one, which Knut Anders deleted, *I* have been deleting > them, but depending on how many we get I might get very tired of this. > We may at one point think of implementing the restrictions other > projects have gone to already - see: > > http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm#per_wiki_access_control_-_tighten_your_wiki_just_a_little.2C_benefit_just_a_lot > > This suggests we could create an Admin group to which we'd have to > request access to, and then only those with access can modify the > wiki. > > It's a sad thing that this is necessary for an open source project, > but there it is. > > From other groups' questions to infra (specifically River) I noted the > following further point: > - we may need to log an issue like this: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6010 > > For now, I'll just delete that puppy... > > Myrna
Oh, someone did already. Thx.
