Re: Wiki vandalism and performance 🖋

[Chris Perry]

Hi Alberto

Thanks for starting to look into this. There's lots of questions to
consider. It may be that we arent making full use of the anti spam
functionality in the current wiki engine (MoinMoin). It may be that
other wiki engines provide better anti spam functionality than
MoinMoin. The effort to move to another wiki engine (if we chose to do
so) may well be significant. If we moved to another wiki engine the
anti spam functionality probably wouldn't work out of the box, it
would probably need to be set up for our wiki. etc etc

I'm not planning to do any research on this subject. I think it's more
useful for me to work on the content of the wiki (rather than its
implementation).

Regards,

Chris.



On 15 June 2016 at 17:10, Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
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> PLENTY OF RESOURCES
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> I was to ask about how to deal with the current attacks to the Ubuntu wiki, but I realized there is already plenty of information out there about the topic.
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> For example, the MediaWiki engine has plenty of tools and recommendations that seem good enough for neutralizing any attack:
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> - (https://www.quora.com/How-does-Wikipedia-keep-tabs-on-spammers-since-its-pages-can-be-edited-by-anyone)
> - (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_vandalism)
> - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleaning_up_vandalism/Tools)
> - (https://youtu.be/HI3rTf7HzTc)
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> Moreover most of these countermeasures seem feasible to implement in the current Ubuntu wiki engine, and probably easier to maintain than in MediaWiki.
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> GOOD ENOUGH FIX
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> Reading the above links the only thing that seems really missing in the current engine is a public history log of all editions, with a comprehensive filter of it. For example only showing users with a few editions.
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> Then if someone sees vandalism, it could just click on a particular edit on the log for reporting to a moderation team. Then a moderator could ban by user name, and even by IP address if it is recurring.
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> Probably this feature alone will be good enough for stopping the current attacks.
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> 🕀 BOTTOM LINE
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> So the first question to answer seems to be which wiki engine is better for Ubuntu taking into account performance, maintainability and available anti-vandalism tools. And which employees will study and implement the changes needed.
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> Thanks for your attention.
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