Lost pages on the wikis

[Elizabeth K. Joseph]

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 2016-05-07 22:29, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
>> Spammers have found back doors to the team we allow edit access for
>> and they're inundating various teams with join requests.
>
> I declined an application to ~ubuntu-doc-contributors today. Noticed
> that the Launchpad account had been created today, and it had already
> joined a lot of teams.
>
> ~ubuntu-doc-contributors does not give you access to anything; it's
> accidentally moderated. Still don't want to see spammers in the members
> list.
>
>> 2. I've opened up ticket 28486 with Canonical IS because we've been
>> losing wiki pages. Currently our landing page for
>> help.ubuntu.com/community/ is gone, which someone joined #ubuntu-doc
>> to tell us about. So is wiki.ubuntu.com/NewsTeam which is the
>> landing page for the Ubuntu News team,
>
> Then it's deliberate sabotage, so we'd better stop referring to them as
> "spammers"; they are scoundrels.
>
>> I'm hoping Canonical IS can retrieve these pages from the file
>> system,
>
> I hope so too. Earlier today I spent a couple of hours on a page in the
> community help wiki, and I just saved a local copy in case the current
> help wiki will be replaced with a backup.

I went ahead and asked Canonical IS to lock things down again. I
really hated to do this, but until we can get a handle on things to
come up with a plan, the spam pages being created every minute and
legitimate pages being removed aren't making it a useful or reliable
place to work anyway :(

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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2