Community Help Wiki locked down (was: Re: Fwd: Fwd: WikiGuide destroed by spammers)

[Elizabeth K. Joseph]

On Wednesday, January 6, 2016, Alessandro Viprati <
vipri.alessandro at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 2016-01-06 10:53 GMT+01:00 Alessandro Viprati <vipri.alessandro at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','vipri.alessandro at gmail.com');>>:
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>> Op 06-01-16 om 01:02 schreef Elizabeth K. Joseph:
>> > I don't know how long the lock down will last, and right now I'm not
>> > sure how logins look to folks not in EditorGroup or AdminGroup. That
>> > may be worth testing by someone not in those groups, it would be good
>> > to know if they are able to log in at all, or if it just shows all
>> > pages as Immutable.
>>
>> I can still login on both *wiki.ubuntu.com <http://wiki.ubuntu.com>* and *help.ubuntu.com/community
>> <http://help.ubuntu.com/community> *portals, but every page is immutable
>> as it should.
>>
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> I correct myself:
>  - I can login and edit *wiki.ubuntu.com <http://wiki.ubuntu.com/>, *
>  - only login (can't edit) *help.ubuntu.com/community
> <http://help.ubuntu.com/community>*
>

OK, that makes sense. The spam attack was only against the help wiki (not
wiki.ubuntu.com).

What we learned here is that the lockdown means people can still log in to
it, just can't edit. Thanks for testing!


-- 
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2
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