On 05/10/2016 12:48 PM, Dan Smith wrote: >>> Hmm... that's unfortunate, as we were trying to get some of our less >>> ephemeral items out of random etherpads and into the wiki (which has the >>> value of being google indexed). > > Yeah, I'm kinda surprised anyone would consider a wiki-less world. I'm > definitely bummed at the thought of losing it. > >> The Google indexing is also what makes the wiki so painful... After 6 >> years most of the content there is inaccurate or outdated. It's a >> massive effort to clean it up without breaking the Google juice, and >> nobody has the universal knowledge to determine if pages are still >> accurate or not. We are bitten every day by newcomers finding wrong >> information on the wiki and acting using it. It's getting worse every >> day we keep on using it. > > Sure, I think we all feel the pain of the stale information on the wiki. > What if we were to do what we do for bug or review purges and make a > list of pages, in reverse order of how recently they've been updated? > Then we can have a few sprints to tag obviously outdated things to > purge, and perhaps some things that just need some freshening. > > There are a lot of nova-related things on the wiki that are the > prehistory equivalent of specs, most of which are very misleading to > people about the current state of things. I would think we could purge a > ton of stuff like that pretty quickly. I'll volunteer to review such a > list from the nova perspective. > >> * Deprecate the current wiki and start over with another wiki (with >> stronger ACL support ?) > > I'm somewhat surprised that this is an issue, because I thought that the > wiki requires an ubuntu login. Are spammers really getting ubuntu logins > so they can come over and deface our wiki?
Yes. > > --Dan > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev