On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 00:21, Magnus <[email protected]> wrote:
> I came in initially interested in contributing doc, but I've pulled back from 
> the wiki because of the daily vandalizing by spammers in the comments 
> section. I don't think it would be advisable to open up registrations for the 
> potential vandalizing of articles when we're not yet in a place that even the 
> comments can be effectively policed.

We won't allow anonymous users to edit pages, you need to register
first - at least that's how I understand it. Because of this I don't
think you can compare it to the amount of spam comments there have
been posted, as the only thing you needed in order to post a comment
was to fill out a captcha.

I have by the way gone through all the pages and removed the spam
comments I have found, so we can claim the wiki to be spam free now :)

> I don't know if Confluence is just particularly more spammer friendly, or if 
> it's an implementation issue, or if we just need more wiki cops.  My 
> registration allows me to see quite a lot of content in areas that I don't 
> think I'm empowered or expected to provide volunteer services yet (or maybe I 
> am? I don't know…).  If my access level is incorrect and just conveys with a 
> basic registration, then we've got ACL's to worry about. If my access level 
> is correct, than no worries. I'd expressed interest in helping with 
> infrastructure at some point so maybe that's why I can see what I can see.

This was corrected last night, thank you for notifying us about it.

> Confluence itself has honestly been a bit personally off-putting. I don't 
> mean to be a wiki whiner, but trying to figure out why it is I'm not really 
> enthused about writing doc for the wiki when I publish documents on a 
> (private) MediaWiki every day. I feel badly enough about the current wiki 
> that I've considered either writing an .epub and hosting it on github, or 
> starting a blog. I only mention these things because feedback is being 
> solicited here.

We probably can't find a solution which works equally well for
everybody, and considering the existing content is in Confluence, it
would just be extra work for us - without much gain - if we choose to
migrate to another wiki system. We should at least have a clear plan
for what we are trying to gain from it, and how we are going to do it,
before we start a migration.

--
Venlig hilsen / Kind regards
Jeppe Toustrup (aka. Tenzer)

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