Fabio Fantoni
2013-Jun-07 11:24 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] (Temporary) Changes to Wiki editing rights
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.