CeesDeGroot BTW - I still have a backup of the Jini wiki I ran for a while. It was also running on MoinMoin, so at least the formatting should be the same ;-).
Is it useful to add that content to the River wiki? (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cdegroot.com/cgi-bin/jini - note that later in its lifetime, a lot of spam got added) On 2013-03-20 5:13 PM, "Greg Trasuk" <[email protected]> wrote: >OK, so I had word back from Infra@ on our wiki spam issues. > >What their docs recommend is that we lock down the edits to authorized >users. To do that, I need two lists - First we need the Wiki names of >at least two of us who are willing to act as administrators on the >wiki. This will be the AdminGroup. I'll volunteer, we should have at >least one more, and the more the merrier. Second, we will have a list >of contributors' wiki names. These people will have authorization to >add and edit pages. > >Essentially, from here on, the procedure will be that someone new who >wants to contribute to the wiki will register on the River Wiki, thus >creating a wiki name for themselves. Then they will drop a line on >[email protected] saying "Please enable me for contributions". >Obviously we could set policy on who to authorize, but basically most >projects just grant permission as soon as it's requested - it's not a >voting thing like committership. Then one of the members of the >AdminGroup goes and edits the ContributorsGroup wiki page. The >assumption is that a spammer won't ask for permission to spam. If >someone does post specious content, then we can remove them from the >ContributorsGroup. > >So if you could provide your Wiki names for the AdminGroup and >ContributorsGroup, I'll get the process rolling with infra@. > >Thanks, > >Greg. > >-- >Greg Trasuk, President >StratusCom Manufacturing Systems Inc. - We use information technology to >solve business problems on your plant floor. >http://stratuscom.com >
