On 01/15/2013 03:12 AM, Kinkie wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Alex Rousskov > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 01/14/2013 02:47 AM, Kinkie wrote: >>>> Can we grep the wiki data to locate those other user accounts? >>> >>> Yes, I found out that we can. It's 129 users total. >>> Amended plan: create a page to explain the account policy; post to >>> squid-users; preserve those 129, the editors, the admins, and whoever >>> answers from squid-users; remove everyone else with no other warning. >>> >>> Eliezer, Alex; you are right that it'd be nice to warn each individual >>> user personally, but: >>> - it's 28k of them. Out of those, I estimate 8k to be real (and the >>> estimate is VERY generous), at least 20k are drive-by spam attempts >>> - many of the users have probably fake or spoofed email addresses >>> (remember, no address verification is done), so the mail would be >>> unexpected to them, and even if only 10% answered, it's an excessive >>> amount of work. >>> - recreating an user account is a trivial matter (even though it now >>> requires an admin's intervention) >>> >>> I will keep the old user accounts around in case they are needed. >>> >>> Does the plan fly with you guys? >> >> >> If I understand your plan and estimates correctly, you want to >> inconvenience a few thousand of legitimate users, and we could expect a >> few hundred of those users to come back at you so that you can manually >> re-enable their accounts? In this case, I hope your estimates are wrong >> both because I do not think we should inconvenience so many without a >> very good reason, and because I do not want you to spend so much time on >> handling those manual cases. >> >> Can we remove non-editing users that did not register to receive any >> notifications? If yes, how many users will be left after that? > > Hi Alex, > I suspect we are saying the same thing: I wouldn't really > inconvenience users. Registering for an account on the wiki allows for > a few things: > - subscribe to page notifications > - customize quick-links in the user's profile > - with additional authorizations, edit the wiki > > I would not touch users which have done legitimately any of the above > (some users have tried to XSS the wiki or to use their profile for > link-spam and would be removed). > After the cleanup, the wiki would contain about 400 registered users; > 25334 users would be reverted to anonymous (doing so would have a > performance benefit for them, as they could use cached pages, while > registered users can't). I expect that the number of wrongly removed > users be in the units, a few tens at most.
Sounds good to me. Alex.
