Current wiki access status

[Pasi Lallinaho]

On 20/06/16 03:19, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> On 2016-06-08 19:53, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote (in the "Noticeboard?"
> thread):
>> Our spammers ... joined other teams, sat on accounts for months
>> before using them (not just created less than a week ago). Some even
>> signed the Code of Conduct. They'd followed up by emailing the admins
>> of the team saying they work on Ubuntu and wanted access (but very
>> poor English with requests that made non sense often made it obvious
>> that they weren't legitimate contributors). It became almost
>> impossible to tell the difference between legitimate newcomers and
>> spammers.
> Earlier today I invalidated a bug, and recalled what Elisabeth said
> above when doing so. The completely useless "bug" (see
> <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1594178>) was reported by
> <https://launchpad.net/~wardsandra63>. Take a look at the bug history of
> that "user": <http://tinyurl.com/gsmxu3w>. It's highly likely that the
> account is there solely for abuse purposes.
>
> Now, this kind of "users" show up in the bug tracker now and then; I
> have certainly met quite a few of them on the tiny, tiny portion of the
> bug tracker I have visited. Why isn't there an easy way to report
> suspected abuse accounts? The recent problems with the wikis make that
> question even more motivated, don't they?
>

That's a question you need to ask the Canonical IS. That has been done,
and they are aware of all of the problems with the wiki, but they are
still unwilling to make any changes to Launchpad account creation.

Cheers,
Pasi

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