On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 09:38, Jeppe Toustrup <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
As a follow up on this, we have now enabled public user sign-up and disabled anonymous commenting. I have also requested a new license to Confluence from Atlassian since the current one is expired. When we get the new one I will do an upgrade of Confluence since the current version is from July 2010. -- Venlig hilsen / Kind regards Jeppe Toustrup (aka. Tenzer) _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
