Tightening up our Wiki
Hi all, the user wikimouse is using new techniques that makes it more difficult to keep spam out of the Wiki: he reverts the pages to those that contained spam once we delete it - this does not send out notification mails - and uses tinyurl to circumvent the BadContent list. I suggest we close down Wiki access to the few of us who actually edit the Wiki from time to time using http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm#per_wiki_access_control_-_tighten_your_wiki_just_a_little.2C_benefit_just_a_lot I'll ask infra to change the setup in a few days unless anybody stops me. Stefan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@gump.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@gump.apache.org
Re: Tightening up our Wiki
Hi, Stefan Bodewig wrote: Hi all, the user wikimouse is using new techniques that makes it more difficult to keep spam out of the Wiki: he reverts the pages to those that contained spam once we delete it - this does not send out notification mails - and uses tinyurl to circumvent the BadContent list. I suggest we close down Wiki access to the few of us who actually edit the Wiki from time to time using http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm#per_wiki_access_control_- _tighten_your_wiki_just_a_little.2C_benefit_just_a_lot I'll ask infra to change the setup in a few days unless anybody stops me. Hmm. Why not have a general security setting to allow reverts only for privileged people (i.e. those who can edit BadContent)? Tinyurls: Do we really need those in the wiki? The URL is normally hidden in the markup anyway and it does then not matter how long it is. - Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@gump.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@gump.apache.org
Re: Tightening up our Wiki
On 2012-05-04, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, Stefan Bodewig wrote: Hi all, the user wikimouse is using new techniques that makes it more difficult to keep spam out of the Wiki: he reverts the pages to those that contained spam once we delete it - this does not send out notification mails - and uses tinyurl to circumvent the BadContent list. I suggest we close down Wiki access to the few of us who actually edit the Wiki from time to time using http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm#per_wiki_access_control_- _tighten_your_wiki_just_a_little.2C_benefit_just_a_lot I'll ask infra to change the setup in a few days unless anybody stops me. Hmm. Why not have a general security setting to allow reverts only for privileged people (i.e. those who can edit BadContent)? Good question, I'll ask on the infra list whether this is possible. Tinyurls: Do we really need those in the wiki? The URL is normally hidden in the markup anyway and it does then not matter how long it is. Not sure whether there is a way to prevent this. We could add tinyurl ot the BadContent list but I guess there are too many URL shortening services for us to keep up with. Still, in Gump's case there only are very few people who ever edit the Wiki so the ContributorGroup setup would be a good fit IMHO. Stefan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@gump.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@gump.apache.org
Re: Tightening up our Wiki
2012/5/4 Stefan Bodewig bode...@apache.org: Hi all, the user wikimouse is using new techniques that makes it more difficult to keep spam out of the Wiki: he reverts the pages to those that contained spam once we delete it - this does not send out notification mails - and uses tinyurl to circumvent the BadContent list. I suggest we close down Wiki access to the few of us who actually edit the Wiki from time to time using http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm#per_wiki_access_control_-_tighten_your_wiki_just_a_little.2C_benefit_just_a_lot I'll ask infra to change the setup in a few days unless anybody stops me. Add tinyurl.com to the list of spam addresses? We did so in Tomcat a year ago, http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/LocalBadContent Still, in Gump's case there only are very few people who ever edit the Wiki so the ContributorGroup setup would be a good fit IMHO. I agree. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@gump.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@gump.apache.org
