jan i wrote: > 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 >> >> > Jan;
I currently have some admin privileges on the mwiki and do use them to primarily create new accounts for volunteers to the Documentation team. Regards Keith
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