[rkward-devel] Status update

[Jacolin Yves]

Hi RKWard list,

As you are talking about RKWard website, I would like to tell that I have no 
time now or later to work on it (as you can see, it is a long long time I did 
not post anything here). I got more and more tasks in my job or around it 
(osgeo.org, georezo.net just to give some example). I was pleased to work on 
the website and the french translation :)

So if anyone want to take care of the website, it is not a problem, please 
contact me if you need information about the actual version. I will stay oin 
the RKWard mailing list a few monthes.

Finally, the one who will manage the website, will take care to update 
mediawiki which is quiet old IMHO.

Best regard to all developers and users of RKWard,

Y.
Le Tuesday 18 September 2007 00:06:21 Thomas Friedrichsmeier, vous avez 
écrit :
> On Monday 17 September 2007, Stefan Rödiger wrote:
> > > 3a - For the wiki: Do not allow to create new users any more. New users
> > > will have to be created manually by a trusted user. Of course this
> > > defies some important advantages of having a wiki in the first place,
> > > but at the moment, the effort to contain the spam is just getting out
> > > of hands. Either way, it would also be nice, if some of you could
> > > volunteer to act as Sysops for the wiki. That is, I'll give you some
> > > additional rights, so you can delete spam pages and block spam
> > > accounts. Then, maybe every once in a while, you could take a look at
> > > the "Recent Changes" page in the wiki, and clear up any vandalism that
> > > you can find.
> >
> > I volunteer.
>
> Ok, you are now a "sysop" in the wiki. This means you can block users (an
> expiry time of "indefinite" is generally appropriate, as the accounts in
> question are dedicated spammers), and delete pages they created (note: Make
> sure not to delete pages that actually once had legitimate content, as the
> entire history of that page is deleted; in most cases the spammers seem to
> create entirely new pages, however).
>
> About creating new users, I have not taken any actions so far, as there's
> still Prasenjits suggestion about using a Captcha to block bots. If anybody
> has the time to look into how this can be done with MediaWiki, it would be
> much appreciated.
>
> > Something of topic. I would like to have access to the rkward-mailing
> > list (besides the source forge service) via http://gmane.org/ . It's fast
> > and has some other advantages while reading on-line. Check it and find
> > out if you like it. If you do so I will apply there.
>
> No objections. Of course having the archive mirrored would be one more
> reason to make extra sure spam never reaches the archive in the first
> place.
>
> Regards
> Thomas



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