From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: A Large Angry SCM Subject: Re: wiki "abuse" Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:18:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4C608CB2.8000602@gmail.com> References: <4C606E1B.6020800@lsrfire.ath.cx> Reply-To: gitzilla@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Felipe Contreras , Sverre Rabbelier , =?UTF-8?B?UmVuw6kgU2NoYXJmZQ==?= , John 'Warthog9' Hawley , =?UTF-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsCBCamFybWFzb24=?= , Tay Ray Chuan , Git List To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 10 01:18:29 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oibbr-00031I-Jo for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:18:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757105Ab0HIXST (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:18:19 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:59649 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754288Ab0HIXSS (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 19:18:18 -0400 Received: by vws3 with SMTP id 3so7150098vws.19 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:18:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id :disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=71M/T7CVnuKqFMSUpetlqURzxZ+jiMYnP+8JeGhw33M=; b=GujH5Moc3/mEPoWJ/FfqEeAEFzYBg4LsBNbDDg4Vy7g3OstaKAKk8FVWGTrsvdpwMS /DNXSwSFmL80lNufn9aJUzy+hKsy1liXR+OtmQkINhkAME7uyQMGBUck/HGbqwb6IDRG 5h3QlnMJleX/MD/Z7edYXsyN7TlRdPNie0cPg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:reply-to :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NN3+IqueYovSjGA57hW9zz3ou50ocvMPkVpZrv3IG5EmWEIQlkxbcF8dV8HxxKaMmo X0WU4tdvZ0EwxjQRY5aRNvHvhWZcaWb67fcUn3lHq2VNec59yrMVpue39qPtrss9UuWr uHAd86C2DYlajsY2e4l1C4KysfvdDK2t/7pxM= Received: by 10.220.88.224 with SMTP id b32mr9977124vcm.77.1281395897593; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (cpe-67-248-185-165.nycap.res.rr.com [67.248.185.165]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m30sm2356049vbr.19.2010.08.09.16.18.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:18:16 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100620 Icedove/3.0.5 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 08/09/2010 07:00 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Felipe Contreras wrote: > >> Here's a useful Wikipedia guideline: assume good faith: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith > > For the dear love of God. > > Just assume -- hypothetically -- for one second that you, Felipe > Contreras, tried to create a user page on > http://subversion.tigris.org/wiki/ reading like this: > > -- snip -- > Felipe E. Contreras, a proud Git user. > > * [http://felipec.wordpress.com/ Felipe Contreras] > ** [http://felipec.wordpress.com/tag/git/ Keep an open mind] > ** [http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ Git is better] > -- snap -- > > only that the last link was to one of your blog posts and was not well > researched. > > If you still think that such a completely unbiased and uncontroversial > user page was a good idea, well, you should take over the monitoring of > the Git Wiki, I guess, and make sure you remove all link spam. Actually, I > like that idea. Can you do that, please? Can you watch the recent changes > of the Git Wiki and keep it a place where information is king? Thank you > so much in advance! Dscho: Thank you for the excellent job you _are_ doing keeping the spam on the git wiki under control. Please continue. Warthog9: Please take this as another vote to disable the user pages. Everyone else: Most of this thread was/is well intentioned but there is a significant problem with spam on high profile wiki sites (like ours) and the information readily available (from what I've read on this thread) to the _volunteer_ wiki admin slash spam fighter fit the pattern of a spammer. If you believe that Johannes is not doing an acceptable job policing the wiki _AND_ you are willing and able to do the job then speak up with that information.