I think my techbase account still has admin rights. That is, I can also change the rights of others, and lock down pages etc. If someone is interested, I can probably give rights to others, too.
Besides that, the people involved at that time were also danimo and Cornelius, iirc. Probably, some knowhow is also in their heads ;) Greetings, Dominik On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Ben, > > Hi Jaroslaw, > >> >> It seems that techbase isn't locked. There were a few acts of >> vandalism too: https://techbase.kde.org/Special:Log/delete > > Techbase should definitely be locked for normal user editing. > It is possible you are a member of a historical group there which has > edit powers though. > > I don't see any evidence of vandalism in that log, just spam cleanup... > >> >> PS: Any update on possible solutions for the wikis? > > It's a work in progress, requiring a full Mediawiki update and all the > challenges that implies. > > Cheers, > Ben > >> >> >> On 2 February 2016 at 08:51, Ben Cooksley <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Until further notice, all wikis hosted under KDE.org have been >>> rendered uneditable by everyone except members of the Identity group >>> "web-admins". >>> >>> Unfortunately it seems bots (or a human sweatshop) have completely >>> automated the login (via OpenID/Identity none the less) and abusive >>> editing of many of our wikis. >>> >>> This appears to be an issue being experienced by other Mediawiki >>> installations elsewhere as well. >>> >>> At some point we may reinvestigate restoring editing rights to a more >>> limited number of users, but until then our wikis will remain closed >>> to editing. >>> >>> If necessary, we may need to consider migration to alternative Wiki >>> software. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Ben Cooksley >>> KDE Sysadmin >>> _______________________________________________ >>> kde-community mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community >> >> >> >> -- >> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek >> >> KDE: >> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators >> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org >> Calligra Suite: >> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org >> Kexi: >> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi >> Qt Certified Specialist: >> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek >> _______________________________________________ >> kde-community mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
