Ok, locking down needs to happen *NOW*. Spammers are wiping entire pages off the wiki (main okfn). I just had to restore the HowTos and this really is not an effective use of my time.
@Nils - can we disable all edits by people who are not logged in and limit account creation pending modification. @Jonathan - I now +1 massively on using another system for the manual. Lucy On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Lucy Chambers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > Allow me to introduce Atul, who besides some amazing sounding work > with the Wikimedia foundation in India has very kindly agreed to help > out on the sysadmin side of the wiki and possibly also being the > website manager. > > +1 on locking down the really important pages. > >> >> I've made you and Jonathan sysops so you can now more easily rollback >> stuff and protect pages. >> >> You can make others sysops/admins by visiting: >> >> <http://wiki.okfn.org/Special:UserRights> > > I don't have this permission myself, is there any chance you could > give both Atul and me the rights to sort things out? > >> Re protecting pages see: >> >> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Protecting_and_unprotecting_pages> > > Lucy > >> Rufus >> >> _______________________________________________ >> okfn-help mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-help >> > > > > -- > Lucy Chambers > Community Coordinator > Open Knowledge Foundation > http://okfn.org/ > Skype: lucyfediachambers > -- Lucy Chambers Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Skype: lucyfediachambers _______________________________________________ okfn-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-help
