Re: Making Debian users more visible

[Silvia Frank]

Hi,

On 14.07.2014 14:31, Laura Arjona wrote:

Hi everybody

El 14/07/14 13:16, Silvia Frank escribió:

Hello Debian website team,

on the Debian publicity list we discussed how we can make Debian
deployments more visible. What do you think about following suggestions
concerning https://www.debian.org/users/ ?:

Oh great, I never notice this page on the Debian website until now.
Maybe we could make a link from the frontpage to the "user site"? 
Is it
possible to highlight the freshest or outstanding deployments, e.g. 
in a

box at the right side beside the list? The list of deployments is very
long and some of the entries seem very old, and I think visitors are
more motivated to click, if they can see, which are the latest.

Highlighting the user testimonials on the front page sounds like an
interesting idea. Unfortunately there is no machine-readable date
information in users section of the webwml CVS repository, so the
highlighting would need to be manual and we can't automatically sort by
date until that is fixed. Probably the highlighting would need to be
manual anyway? Could you make a mockup of how it might look? This topic
should be discussed on the debian-www list anyways.

https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/users/
https://www.debian.org/devel/website/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/


Ah ok, this makes even small changes intricate. So maybe for the first
it is the easiest to put at the start site a link "Debian deployments"
or "Debian users" which goes to:

https://www.debian.org/users/  . The link could be in the first 
column of links:

About  
Social Contract  
Code of Conduct  
Free Software  
Partners  
Users
Donations  
Contact Us  


I agree about the place, but I would call that link "Who's using 
Debian?" (the title of the page). "Debian users" looks confusing to me 
(if I'm a Debian user looking for help desk, I would probably click 
there), and "Debian deployments" also suggests documentation for 
sysadmins wanting to deploy Debian IMHO.




Yes, good point! So the link on the start site "https://www.debian.org"; 
should be "Who's using Debian?" and placed in the first column of links:


About  
Social Contract  
Code of Conduct  
Free Software  
Partners  
Who's using Debian? 
Donations  
Contact Us  

If there are no objections, could one of the web editors make this 
change, please?




And on https://www.debian.org/users/ we integrate at the right side a
simple box, where we put in newest and outstanding deployments. Attached
you find a very simple (pdf/ libre office-)draft, how it could look. The
background colour of the box should be the same blue as on top of the
side behind the Debian logo. I also shorten a bit the intro (also
because the entries are not listed alphabetically  :-) - what do you 
think?




Mmm new people sending "Who's using Debian" info may not mean that 
they just began using Debian, maybe they use it since years, and just 
now they decided to talk about it.
I'm not sure if it's ok to highlight certain deployments just because 
they recently sent a mail to us, in any case I wouldn't call it "Fresh 
deployments". Maybe "Recent testimonials"? I'm not sure, since they 
are not "testimonials", "recomendations"... "Recent submissions" gives 
machine-feeling, not human touch. I'm not native English speaker so 
I'm afraid I cannot help better on this.


I agree, deployments should not be highlighted just because they sent a 
mail. It is more about "prominent" deployments such as Debian at ISS... 
The idea behind such a "highlightings" is to give visitors a faster 
overview, because the list of Debian users is so long and some entries 
are really old (e.g. sarge). To integrate such a box should be a small 
effort and can be a start to make https://www.debian.org/users/ a bit 
more attractive.


I guess very few people will scroll down the list. If somebody is 
interested in using Debian and wants to look for similar deployments. So 
we should think about integrating a search function at this site instead 
of a map.


Although I think it is a nice idea to visualise this site more. I think 
visitors of this site first want to see 1. type of organisation (already 
visible at the website) 2. extent/ dimension of the deployment (how many 
servers/ users) 3. Services Debian provides (such as: mail server, 
webserver...). Maybe we should think about how this can be visualised? I 
think visitors should have the possibility to use these para

Bug#754920: wiki.debian.org: Access to wiki.debian.org is blocked with 403 Forbidden

[John Sanders]

Package: wiki.debian.org
Severity: normal

It appears some of our IPs have been blocked, and we receive a 403
Forbidden when trying to reach wiki.debian.org.

$ curl -I https://wiki.debian.org/
HTTP/1.1 403 FORBIDDEN
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 00:36:31 GMT
Server: Apache
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=5184000
Content-Length: 147
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html

Can you please unblock 205.196.98.0/24?

Thanks.

Bug#754920: wiki.debian.org: Access to wiki.debian.org is blocked with 403 Forbidden

[Paul Wise]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 9:26 AM, John Sanders wrote:

> It appears some of our IPs have been blocked, and we receive a 403 Forbidden
> when trying to reach wiki.debian.org.
...
> Can you please unblock 205.196.98.0/24?

It appears that one of your machines attempted to spam the wiki once
last year. We will be happy to remove your IP address from the
blacklist once this issue has been investigated and fixed.

2013-09-21 19:32:41 UTC: New account attempt
  username: Myles4866
  email:hec...@nuescienceblog.net
  host: 205.196.98.10 (tan10.sf.aliph.com)
  DENY: matches banned email hec...@nuescienceblog.net
  DENY: total score 100 against threshold of 10
  BLOCK:auto-blacklisting ip 205.196.98.10 (mail from known
spammer, pattern hec...@nuescienceblog.net)

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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