Re: Wiki vandalism and performance 🖋

[Elizabeth K. Joseph]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:54 AM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at linux.com> wrote:
> How bad was Ubuntu's wiki spam really?

When the wiki is fully open, a page is edited or created every 1-3
minutes. This tends to start up within hours of the wiki opening
again.

None of this was an over-reaction, the spam problem is very bad. I'm
also combating it over on the OpenStack wiki (which uses Ubuntu SSO
too, for now), we've disabled new account creations over there until
we can solve it.

> I looked at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecentChanges?max_days=90 and
> sure, there was some spam on May 6 but it was reverted within a few
> hours.

That was when we accidentally approved an account to the editing team
that was a spammer and then we figured out that spammers were joining
open teams included in the editors group. Manual reverts were done and
we had to learn how to remove the spammers who snuck in (removing them
from LP doesn't remove them from the wiki immediately, it does it upon
the next member sync). Huge mess, and massive time and energy drain on
the contributors who were fighting these spammers.

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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2