On 5 February 2014 14:39, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > 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
Oh I misread, sorry. You mean deleting all non-editor users? Since they're effectively read-only at the moment, and could just recreate their account if they want to, I see no reason not to purge them.
