+1 for the admin-group
imo the apache-cms and cwiki are enough (leo transferred the content
already).

regards,
gerhard



2013/4/19 Matt Benson <[email protected]>

> I agree that it's getting overwhelming lately.  MyFaces is the last ASF
> Moin wiki I get updates from where these measures haven't been taken.  +1
> to get this set up.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> My recommendation is that we set up an AdminGroup, probably with all
>> committers in it.
>>
>> Then we add additional people to the ContributorsGroup as desired.
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.apache.org/general/WikiFrequentlyAskedQuestions
>>
>> http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm
>> =============
>> per wiki access control - tighten your wiki just a little, benefit just a
>> lot
>>
>> Long sub-title for a fairly long subject.
>>
>> The MoinMoin wiki is very configurable, more so than some might think.
>> Of course, wikis are meant to be open, for complete and utter open
>> collaboration. That is appreciated. However, there are some that would
>> like a balance between open wiki and having to spend time cleaning up
>> spam each week. Times change, and the reality is, spammers are here
>> and in greater numbers than before. What can we do? Well, here is a
>> suggestion - and one that can be easily implemented and takes but 2
>> minutes (for infra) to set up.
>>
>> Have your project wiki editable only by a custom trusted group - that
>> need not be committers only - it can in fact still be anybody who
>> wants to edit your wiki, they just need to ask one time for edit
>> access and thats it. Is this an incovenience? To ask once for access,
>> I don't think so. After all as a potential contributor to your wiki
>> you (project) will already be conversing with the potential
>> contributor via the mailing lists right? How much pain is it to add
>> someone to the custom trusted group once it has been set up? , no pain
>> at all, a member of the projects AdminGroup edits one wiki page, adds
>> the users WikiuserName to the bottom of the list and save the page! 10
>> seconds maybe and your done. For the amount of times you will have to
>> do that as opposed to the amount of times you spend cleaning up spam -
>> you work out which is better.
>>
>> The spamassassin wiki is a good example - those in the project wikis
>> AdminGroup can add folks to the projects ContributorsGroup and that's
>> it. How much spam has spamassassin received since this was setup ?
>> Zero, Zilch, Nil, Nada.
>>
>> Remember also, any page can have its own access control which
>> overrides and per wiki and per farm defaults - This page does just
>> that, as does LocalBadContent and BadContent pages.
>> =============
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Probably it's time to enable some kind of protection for the wiki.
>> >
>> > I've been hoping to avoid that, but the amount of spam the past two
>> > weeks has finally exceeded my willingness to continue fixing by hand.
>> >
>> > Is anyone who is subscribed to infrastructure willing to look into
>> > this?   If no takers, I guess I'll sign up and see what can be done.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Cagatay Civici
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know how can I unsubscribe from wiki as it is full of spam
>> >> everyday.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Cagatay Civici
>> >> PrimeFaces Lead
>> >> www.primefaces.org
>> >>
>>
>
>

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