[rkward-devel] Status update

[Stefan Rödiger]

Am Dienstag, 18. September 2007 12:04:58 schrieb 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).

That's very sad to hear.


> I got more and more tasks in my job or 
> around it (osgeo.org, georezo.net just to give some example).

Give them up! ;)

Just kidding.

> I was pleased 
> to work on the website and the french translation :)

And we were very pleased you did it! You did a great work.

>
> 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,
>

I wish you all the best too.
Once again thanks for your work.

> Y.

Stefan

> 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 
fipublic. rst
> > > > 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