Xen users - Jun 2013 - (Temporary) Changes to Wiki editing rights

Hi all,

sorry for the wide coverage. As you may know, the Xen wiki has been 
subject of a severe wiki spam attack in the last 2 weeks. As a 
consequence we have had to create an editors group for the wiki. We 
still want ALL community members to be able to edit the wiki and are 
looking for a longer term solution (approaches such as a non-standard 
log-in procedure via single sign on and a few others have been 
suggested). But this will take a few weeks to implement (in particular 
with all the other web changes that are still being worked on).

What we had to do temporarily is create an editors group: to be added, 
please fill out 
http://xenproject.org/component/content/article/100-misc/145-request-to-be-made-a-wiki-editor
and we will add you as quickly as possible. I also updated the following 
pages, to provide this information
- http://xenproject.org/help/wiki.html
- http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Main_Page
- http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Help:Contents

I am also looking for volunteers who can help make others editors. 
Please let me know if you want to volunteer. What would be involved is:
a) We would make you a wiki administrator
b) You would get notified when somebody fills out the form
c) You would change user permissions and make people editors (as these 
are requested - in some cases, we may need to check that somebody is a 
real person)

I think we are covered in the EU and on the East coast, but if a 
volunteer in Australia, Asia and the West Coast of the US could step up 
we could guarantee a quick turn-around. If you are interested drop me a 
mail.

Regards
Lars

Hi all,

sorry for the wide coverage. As you may know, the Xen wiki has been 
subject of a severe wiki spam attack in the last 2 weeks. As a 
consequence we have had to create an editors group for the wiki. We 
still want ALL community members to be able to edit the wiki and are 
looking for a longer term solution (approaches such as a non-standard 
log-in procedure via single sign on and a few others have been 
suggested). But this will take a few weeks to implement (in particular 
with all the other web changes that are still being worked on).

What we had to do temporarily is create an editors group: to be added, 
please fill out 
http://xenproject.org/component/content/article/100-misc/145-request-to-be-made-a-wiki-editor
and we will add you as quickly as possible. I also updated the following 
pages, to provide this information
- http://xenproject.org/help/wiki.html
- http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Main_Page
- http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Help:Contents

I am also looking for volunteers who can help make others editors. 
Please let me know if you want to volunteer. What would be involved is:
a) We would make you a wiki administrator
b) You would get notified when somebody fills out the form
c) You would change user permissions and make people editors (as these 
are requested - in some cases, we may need to check that somebody is a 
real person)

I think we are covered in the EU and on the East coast, but if a 
volunteer in Australia, Asia and the West Coast of the US could step up 
we could guarantee a quick turn-around. If you are interested drop me a 
mail.

Regards
Lars

Il 07/06/2013 12:36, Lars Kurth ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry for the wide coverage. As you may know, the Xen wiki has been 
> subject of a severe wiki spam attack in the last 2 weeks. As a 
> consequence we have had to create an editors group for the wiki. We 
> still want ALL community members to be able to edit the wiki and are 
> looking for a longer term solution (approaches such as a non-standard 
> log-in procedure via single sign on and a few others have been 
> suggested). But this will take a few weeks to implement (in particular 
> with all the other web changes that are still being worked on).
>
> What we had to do temporarily is create an editors group: to be added, 
> please fill out 
>
http://xenproject.org/component/content/article/100-misc/145-request-to-be-made-a-wiki-editor
> and we will add you as quickly as possible. I also updated the 
> following pages, to provide this information
> - http://xenproject.org/help/wiki.html
> - http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Main_Page
> - http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Help:Contents
>
> I am also looking for volunteers who can help make others editors. 
> Please let me know if you want to volunteer. What would be involved is:
> a) We would make you a wiki administrator
> b) You would get notified when somebody fills out the form
> c) You would change user permissions and make people editors (as these 
> are requested - in some cases, we may need to check that somebody is a 
> real person)
>
> I think we are covered in the EU and on the East coast, but if a 
> volunteer in Australia, Asia and the West Coast of the US could step 
> up we could guarantee a quick turn-around. If you are interested drop 
> me a mail.
>
> Regards
> Lars
>
I think that must be solved also the problem of account creation, 
hundreds of fake accounts created all the time make difficult to see the 
updates to wiki pages.
Probably a different (more difficult) or double captcha can solve the 
problem.

On 07/06/2013 12:24, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> Il 07/06/2013 12:36, Lars Kurth ha scritto:
>>
> I think that must be solved also the problem of account creation, 
> hundreds of fake accounts created all the time make difficult to see 
> the updates to wiki pages.
> Probably a different (more difficult) or double captcha can solve the 
> problem.
Agreed
Lars

On 07/06/2013 12:24, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> Il 07/06/2013 12:36, Lars Kurth ha scritto:
>>
> I think that must be solved also the problem of account creation, 
> hundreds of fake accounts created all the time make difficult to see 
> the updates to wiki pages.
> Probably a different (more difficult) or double captcha can solve the 
> problem.
Agreed
Lars

Fabiano,
we now have a better CAPTCHA mechanism in place (although we may need to 
raise the bar and use ReCaptcha). Let''s see whether what we did now 
makes a difference.
Lars

Fabiano,
we now have a better CAPTCHA mechanism in place (although we may need to 
raise the bar and use ReCaptcha). Let''s see whether what we did now 
makes a difference.
Lars

Il 07/06/2013 14:25, Lars Kurth ha scritto:
> Fabiano,
> we now have a better CAPTCHA mechanism in place (although we may need 
> to raise the bar and use ReCaptcha). Let''s see whether what we did
now
> makes a difference.
> Lars
Thanks, the creation of fake accounts seem stopped for now.
I also think that captcha need other improvement.
BTW I''m Fabio, not Fabiano :P

Il 07/06/2013 14:25, Lars Kurth ha scritto:
> Fabiano,
> we now have a better CAPTCHA mechanism in place (although we may need 
> to raise the bar and use ReCaptcha). Let''s see whether what we did
now
> makes a difference.
> Lars
Thanks, the creation of fake accounts seem stopped for now.
I also think that captcha need other improvement.
BTW I''m Fabio, not Fabiano :P

Il 07/06/2013 16:16, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
> Il 07/06/2013 14:25, Lars Kurth ha scritto:
>> Fabiano,
>> we now have a better CAPTCHA mechanism in place (although we may need 
>> to raise the bar and use ReCaptcha). Let''s see whether what we
did
>> now makes a difference.
>> Lars
> Thanks, the creation of fake accounts seem stopped for now.
> I also think that captcha need other improvement.
> BTW I''m Fabio, not Fabiano :P
There are still too many bot registrations, I think that captcha need to 
be improve and/or added another simple rotation logic question.
Thanks for any reply.

Il 07/06/2013 16:16, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
> Il 07/06/2013 14:25, Lars Kurth ha scritto:
>> Fabiano,
>> we now have a better CAPTCHA mechanism in place (although we may need 
>> to raise the bar and use ReCaptcha). Let''s see whether what we
did
>> now makes a difference.
>> Lars
> Thanks, the creation of fake accounts seem stopped for now.
> I also think that captcha need other improvement.
> BTW I''m Fabio, not Fabiano :P
There are still too many bot registrations, I think that captcha need to 
be improve and/or added another simple rotation logic question.
Thanks for any reply.