On 5 February 2014 14:25, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Hi - > >> I'm trying to create a new account for the GCC wiki using the >> account creation page at: >> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/HomePage?action=newaccount >> but things are not going well. >> >> I fill in the form and click create account. After thinking for a >> while the page returns a Gateway Error. [...] > > This mirrors the symptoms of other sourceware-hosted moinmoin wikis > that had been overrun with spam users. We cleaned a bunch of them off > of glibc the other day, basically removing all but the > trusted-editors, and things are much faster. (Legitimate non-editor > users can create new users, or email to restore their purged info.) > > Are y'all interested in the same treatment for the gcc wiki?
Someone (I think it was you :-) already locked it down some time ago to combat a spam attack. These are the trusted editors: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/EditorGroup
