!!!This is a call for action concerning the documentation wiki!!! In the past weeks the state of documentation wiki has rapidly detoriated due to heavy spamming to the degree of not beeing useable/maintainable anymore.
The amount of spamming is also beginning to cause strange bugs in MoinMoin, like the trouble with the "ThirdParty" page (which, btw, has still not been fixed almost HALF A YEAR since the problem is known) and now the RecentChanges page seems to be broken as well [1]. I suspect that most of the problems are caused by the comment plugin, which makes it just too easy for spammers and obviously has some serious bugs too. I think, it is time to admit that the current comment system was a bad idea and, in the absence of a current better solution, we should simply disable and remove it. Many of the comments weren't that useful anyway and there aren't that many. Furthermore we need to actively maintain the wiki in a better way. Accounts should be regularly monitored to check if any spammers have obtained an account. Edits should only be possible by logged in users. We don't have that many documentation contributors anyway, so I, personally, don't care if some people, who wouldn't bother to get an account, are discouraged from contributing. To implement this measures, we (i.e. the members of the documentation team) need to obtain the wiki administration priviledges from those who currently hold [2] it and, to be frank, haven't been able/willing to do anything about the problems that have been known for far too long already. Sorry, if this message comes accross a bit harsh, but I'm just worried that all the effort that already went into the documentation is just going to waste by neglect. Chris [1] At least for me it now only ever shows "ValueError invalid literal for long() [...]" as do several other pages [2] I can't check who those are, because the "DocTeam" page is broken too :-( --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Docs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-docs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
