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Re: [GDB Wiki] Add editor privilege control
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink dot net>, gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 08:12:27 -0800
- Subject: Re: [GDB Wiki] Add editor privilege control
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- References: <20140214030759 dot GC5485 at adacore dot com> <52FE61DD dot 6010000 at earthlink dot net> <y0mppm4r4ue dot fsf at fche dot csb>
> With the present scheme, effective spam fighting requires ongoing
> manual operations by you / tromey / whoever.
>
> Plus, the present scheme enables any spammer to create a moinmoin
> userid, create a junk page, then leave. The problem is that every
> such junk user bogs the wiki software down more and more: there are
> some 4000 now, with 10+/day new ones coming. (Over at gcc/glibc,
> before a cleanup, we had almost a hundred thousand (!), which was
> enough to cause cgi/http timeouts to valid users.) Cleaning *those*
> up is difficult without a whitelist such as the EditorGroup.
That's really useful feedback, thank you!
I also find it compelling that we have had a number of reverts done
the last few weeks, which is not huge, but larger than the twice-per-
quarter average we were counting on.
--
Joel