Current wiki access status

[Brendan Perrine]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 01:26:41 +0200
Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 2016-06-05 01:10, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > Starting a new thread here so we can focus on the leadership stuff in
> > the leadership thread.
> > 
> > The wikis are locked down to only two teams: ~ubuntu-members and a
> > Canonical team.
> > 
> > We had to remove ~ubuntu-etherpad some time ago because it had:
> > 
> > 1. Some teams that were open (like some LoCos), so spammers joined
> > those teams en masse to gain access. As a result, the wiki got spammed
> > and those real teams got filled with spam accounts. Very frustrating.
> > 
> > 2. The administrative burden of combating spammers who requested to
> > join was turning into a ridiculous full time job. The spammers kept
> > getting more clever so their accounts looked real.
> > 
> > On Thursday popey proposed a new team that he and a few others have
> > volunteered to be moderators of. It's not created yet, but it will
> > likely be a fully moderated team so the admins don't get flooded with
> > join requests again, and people have to explicitly request access from
> > the admins and justify their request (possibly by sharing some
> > legitimate prior work they've done in the community if we don't know
> > them already).
> > 
> > It's yet another band-aid, but until we find someone to actually drive
> > efforts toward a more long term solution, it's the best we can do.
> 
> Thanks for this update, Lyz. cc'ing ubuntu-community-team to spread the
> word.
> 
> -- 
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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Hard for me to think of a better solution at the current time. 

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Brendan Perrine <walterorlin at gmail.com>