On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 3:32 AM, TJ Frazier <tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/2012 03:27, Herbert Duerr wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> On 21.11.2012 20:24, jan iversen wrote:
>>>
>>> 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).
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>> +1 from me
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> I agree, except that I suggest to remove only accounts that never
>> contributed anything. There are many pages from the pre-AOO times with
>> very interesting content that were created or updated by people lost AOO
>> out of their focus in the meantime. Their contributions are valuable
>> though and should not be forgotten.
>>
>> Maybe the page histories would suffer by removing such accounts
>> completely.
>>
>>> [...]
>>> 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 ??
>>
>>
>> If I remember correctly there was an issue with the license of our
>> mediawiki, such that the existing content could not simply be relicensed
>> to ALv2
>>
>> Herbert
>>
>>
> Hi, all,
>
> There may be a little confusion on the current state of the wiki. It is very
> good: thanks to the really super work by a really super crew of volunteers,
> the spam is all deleted; the average life-span of new spam is about half an
> hour. But we can't keep that up forever.
>
> What needs SQL-level deleting is:
> * empty new accounts (never any activity)
> * blocked accounts with only deleted contributions (the deleted contribs,
> spam, should go, too)
>
> The removal of this trash shouldn't cause problems (fingers crossed).
>
> With the wiki set to "invitation only" new accounts, we should have time for
> some longer-range planning.
>
> /tj/
>
TJ--
Many KUDOS! for your and the other volunteer's efforts on this...what
an ordeal!
>
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she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
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