Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] (Temporary) Changes to Wiki editing rights

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx>]

Il 07/06/2013 12:36, Lars Kurth ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry for the wide coverage. As you may know, the Xen wiki has been 
> subject of a severe wiki spam attack in the last 2 weeks. As a 
> consequence we have had to create an editors group for the wiki. We 
> still want ALL community members to be able to edit the wiki and are 
> looking for a longer term solution (approaches such as a non-standard 
> log-in procedure via single sign on and a few others have been 
> suggested). But this will take a few weeks to implement (in particular 
> with all the other web changes that are still being worked on).
> What we had to do temporarily is create an editors group: to be added, 
> please fill out 
> http://xenproject.org/component/content/article/100-misc/145-request-to-be-made-a-wiki-editor 
> and we will add you as quickly as possible. I also updated the 
> following pages, to provide this information
> - http://xenproject.org/help/wiki.html
> - http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Main_Page
> - http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Help:Contents
>
> I am also looking for volunteers who can help make others editors. 
> Please let me know if you want to volunteer. What would be involved is:
> a) We would make you a wiki administrator
> b) You would get notified when somebody fills out the form
> c) You would change user permissions and make people editors (as these 
> are requested - in some cases, we may need to check that somebody is a 
> real person)
> I think we are covered in the EU and on the East coast, but if a 
> volunteer in Australia, Asia and the West Coast of the US could step 
> up we could guarantee a quick turn-around. If you are interested drop 
> me a mail.
> Regards
> Lars
I think that must be solved also the problem of account creation, 
hundreds of fake accounts created all the time make difficult to see the 
updates to wiki pages.
Probably a different (more difficult) or double captcha can solve the 
problem.
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