Spam is happening again

[Nio Wiklund]

Hi everybody,

It seems we cannot have an open wiki system. Either some people enjoy
spamming when and where it is possible, or there is one particular
enemy, that really tries hard to destroy our open system.

I think we need a method to give trusted people a 'limited in time'
access to the wiki/help pages (maybe similar to the process to give
admins and moderators access to edit other people's threads at the
Ubuntu Forums. I think a rather larger number of people can be given
such access, at least all Ubuntu members and also other people who are
regularly maintaining wiki/help pages.

(I am maintaining a few wiki/help pages, and would apply for such
access. It means that I can be one of the persons, who can help people
without access to make edits too.)

Best regards
Nio (alias sudodus at the Ubuntu Forums)

Den 2016-02-17 kl. 21:05, skrev Elizabeth K. Joseph:
> Canonical IS found out about the wiki.ubuntu.com spam problems
> yesterday afternoon US Pacific time, but we don't have a good
> communication mechanism for updating everyone who needs to know.
> 
> The channel topic in #canonical-sysadmin is updated to reflect the
> problem, and continues into today:
> 
> 15:18 -!- blahdeblah changed the topic of #canonical-sysadmin to:
> Vanguard: blahdeblah || Known issues: wiki read-only for spam cleanup
> || Although we idle here, please mail requests to rt at ubuntu.com ||
> http: //status.admin.canonical.com
> 23:41 -!- Spads changed the topic of #canonical-sysadmin to: Vanguard:
> Spads || Known issues: wiki read-only for spam cleanup || Although we
> idle here, please mail requests to rt at ubuntu.com || http:
> //status.admin.canonical.com
> 08:05 -!- neale changed the topic of #canonical-sysadmin to: Vanguard:
> neale || Known issues: wiki read-only for spam cleanup || Although we
> idle here, please mail requests to rt at ubuntu.com || http:
> //status.admin.canonical.com
> 
> Over in #ubuntu-irc one of folks from IS left a message as well:
> 
> 16:05 < blahdeblah> Hi all.  We've had another spam flood on the main
> wiki and I've set it to read-only for a while.  Is there someone
> around who can update #ubuntu topic (and any other relevant channels)
> with this info?
> 
> Ongoing issue aside, finding a better way for them to communicate this
> to the community would be good :)
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Peter Matulis
> <peter.matulis at canonical.com> wrote:
>> I let Canonical IS know.
>>
>> On 17 February 2016 at 13:53, Alessandro Viprati
>> <vipri.alessandro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Again spam on wiki.ubuntu.com:
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecentChanges
>>>
>>> A lot of pages created.
>>>
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>>
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