On 24 November 2014 at 13:14, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> jan i wrote: > >> Ideally we should have 2-3 admins for our wiki. When I look at the logs, I >> cannot see any admin actions over the last couple of months, and when I >> look at some of the new pages, I believe we are getting spammed again. >> > > I create MWiki accounts on a regular basis (from the web interface). So at > least that activity should be visible. If you see spam, can you send some > links? > I saw that activity, but I had expected activity deleting pages etc. When I last maintained the servers, pages was deleted more or less weekly by a couple of people. > > Ideally we should have 1-2 admin pr national/language forum. Currently >> most >> forums seems to be without a admin, even the EN forum does not seem to >> have >> regular admin activity. Bear in mind though, I cannot judge how much admin >> work is needed on the forums. >> > > I understand that it can be painful to do so, but the fact that "most > forums seem to be without an admin" is scary enough that it's worth to > understand it better. Without looking at every single detail, do you have a > couple of examples like "on the Italian forum there is one admin and that > admin hasn't posted in 6 months"? (This is an example, I know that the > current admin is active). > > What I would like to understand is if we do not have admins, or we have > admins who never log in, or we have incompetent admins (that is, these > people are active but you see badly administered forums). > I did not go as far as to check the admin bit in the user table, I simply took a look at the logs for admin entries. I dont think we have incompetent admins, and I dont know how often they login or post. > > Also note that most day-to-day admin activity on the EN forum is done by > the forum moderators, not by the forum administrators. > As I wrote I am not familiar with the admin job on a forum, so maybe the lack of activity I see is normal. > > My intention is to keep the admins and the vm-admins updated before >> planned >> actions happen as well as this list in case of planned outages, so they >> can >> take appropriate action. >> > > This is an excellent idea. Actually, can we extract e-mails from all > admins and put them together somewhere? If I still have the needed access, > I can take care of it. Fact is, I'm not sure that all admins follow this > list (and this should be fixed). Missing that, it's probably better to > contact them personally, or through an alias, as you wish. > I understood that there is a special mailing list for that kind of activity ? > > Making forums read-only is pretty easy, its a matter of disabling login >> and >> not allow anonymous posting. But then I will also ask the these forums are >> removed from the daily backup cycle. >> > > Sounds perfect to me. I guess Hagar's concern is the same as mine, i.e., > useful content should not be put offline. We can add a prominent note > saying that the forum is archived and that if someone is willing to > moderate it they can write to the dev list. > Somebody who knows how, need to add that...I think its a brilliant idea, if is html that needs to be uploaded I can take care of that part. > > And if I haven't written about this yet, thanks for being available to > take care of our VMs! > Np, please remember the logistic is not yet in place, hopefully the infra staff will soon find time to make it happen. rgds jan i. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
