Spam war on Ubuntu Wiki

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 27 August 2011 05:19, Morten Kjeldgaard <mok at bioxray.dk> wrote:
> There is an edit war going on in the Ubuntu Wiki. Some users are adding
> irrelevant og spammy comments on the main page. I removed one last night,
> and already three more have appeared. Who has the powers to take care of
> this? These users need to be banned somehow. Who has the powers to take care
> of this?

It's not really a spam war. I try to live by one of Wikipedia's core
principles: Assume good faith. It looks like some individuals from the
Tunisian Ubuntu community are accidentally editing the main page while
they are trying to sign up for the next Global Jam. Banning
individuals from community participation for a mistake is not very
welcoming.

If you like, compare those edits with
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/GlobalJam11.09

Perhaps this is because the individuals login so that they can edit
the Global Jam page but when login is complete, the front page loads
instead of the page they were on.

The Ubuntu wiki & Launchpad gets only a relatively minimal amount of
spam which I credit to the registration requirement and the work of
Launchpad administrators and community volunteers who help to clean up
what little does happen.

Jeremy Bicha