having looked at the mediawiki pages, especially the amount of updates, and
make a trial installation my my private server, I know I can cope with the
maintenance problems (but NOT with spam attacks, that requires more than
just one person).
If the community agrees to it, using the lazy consensus, I volunteer to
make maintenance of the mwiki (wiki.openoffice.org).
If nobody object I will very fast do the proposed mysql changes:
- remove accounts with no contributions during the last year.
- removing all new users within the last 2 weeks.
and prepare an update to the newest version, (and as Alexandro suggest have
a test server) which first run it on my own ubuntu, before going live.
The big job done by just a few people to counter attach the spam attack, is
really a GREAT JOB, and even if I do maintenance such skilled people would
still be needed.
I would need a user, that has mysql root access as well as being able to
modify php scripts (for installing new version) and restarting apache. To
get that karma I would need help, since I am sure such a right is only
granted with PMC approval (which is the right way!!).
The page that Rob suggest is of high value, and would be a great way of
having a mini-plan for what to do on the wiki.
I have one question though, why do we have cwiki and wiki....I might be the
only one, but I get confused where to find which information, so maybe we
should decide to have all information in just one wiki ??
have a nice day/evening.
Jan I.
On 21 November 2012 03:42, TJ Frazier <tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> On 11/20/2012 20:10, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
>
>>
>> On 11/20/2012 06:46 AM, tj wrote:
>>
>>> Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts
>>> on a ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know.
>>>
>>
>> Oh, please do.... It looked to me more like it was about three a minute
>> in the wee hours of the morning.
>>
>>
>>> Any Administrator ("sysop") can create a new user account. I will
>>> research what change is required to block other sign-up methods.
>>>
>>> Currently, Mwiki is under massive attack by spammers. Thanks to the
>>> valiant efforts of volunteers Adailton, Helen russian, Pitonyak, and
>>> Yak, we are staying even: the lifetime of spam may be a few hours, but
>>> is usually only a few minutes.
>>>
>>> However, the spammers are creating new spam accounts (the pattern in
>>> the names is quite apparent) at a rate of one every minute or two, and
>>> 24/7. We cannot survive that kind of onslaught indefinitely.
>>>
>>
>> It requires restraint to not delete accounts because they are created in
>> this big batch have have names that look like the other spammer accounts
>> (drugcookie14; for example).
>>
>
> I have been doing some of that (deleting brand-new accounts) in hopes of
> sabotaging the spammers' routines. Maybe it's helped, maybe not. The two
> obvious patterns are word-number-word, and word-word-number: all quite
> suitable for screen names or game sign-ups, but not at all like the names
> on our wiki. Go ahead and delete a random few, just for fun.
>
> /tj/
>
>>
>>
>>> To be continued.
>>>
>>> /tj/
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
