On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Peter Wang <pwang@enthought.com> wrote:
In my wild grepping it's possible I've blown away some good pages. I'm including my list of patterns below, so folks can identify major or obvious problems. The sketchiest (but also the most effective) was eliminating pages with '(2b)', but I recognize that was a pretty broad stroke.
power* Power*
I would at least double check these. Things like 'power spectrum' could have ended up killed by this one. The others look pretty safe. In passing, I'll mention how we eventually got rid of the ipython wiki spam. We made the wiki read-only for authenticated users, with only those listed here: http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/WritersGroup being allowed to write. Anyone who asks is added immediately to this list, so the barrier is low for legitimate contributions, and any of these people: http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/EditorsGroup can edit the writers list. This way it's easy to ensure there will be always someone around who can add writers with minimal delay for real contributions, while keeping the spammers out. It may be that with the new moin this approach isn't necessary, but for ipython it was the only way to finally eliminate the spam problem. And it did, 100%. Cheers, f