On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Mike Dillon <m...@embody.org> wrote: > begin Mike Dillon quotation: >> Being that there is only one active admin on the Haskell.org wiki >> (User:Ashley Y), I believe the fact that this page is editable by any >> user is a policy decision to allow the community to contribute. The >> page could be protected, but then only two administrators could edit it >> (assuming John Peterson decided to become active again after two years >> of not working on the wiki): >> >> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=Special%3AListusers&group=sysop >> >> As for whether or not moving this particular wiki to a Haskell-based >> solution would be a good idea, I don't see it being a win. I don't know >> of any Haskell-based wikis that support MediaWiki syntax, so the effort >> would involve converting all the existing content to some other format. >> Being that MediaWiki's syntax is the most widespread wiki syntax at the >> moment, I don't see how that would do anything but make it harder for >> people to contribute. > > One more thing. On a wiki with active administrators, this user would > have been blocked. That hasn't happened. The last block was in August > 2009: > > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=Special%3ALog&type=block > > If there is not someone regularly watching the wiki at all times, it > would probably be prudent to protect some of the higher profile pages > once there are more admins able to edit them. > > -md
Ashley has made me admin; I've spent the last 1.5 hours deleting all the vandalism and indef blocking the accounts. I have Recent Changes in my RSS reader, so hopefully in the future there will be no greater than 24 hours delay before vandalism is dealt with. A MW upgrade will also help (eg. currently checkuser* seems to be unavailable). * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser -- gwern _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
