Yes definitely, River's wiki's presently experiencing a moron bombardment, it's probably worth waiting until that's sorted first.
Thanks, Peter. ----- Original message ----- > 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 > > >
