[Cython] [cython-users] Re: wiki spam

[Robert Bradshaw]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:53 AM, William Stein <wstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Lars Buitinck <L.J.Buitinck at uva.nl> wrote:
>> 2013/8/28  <cfkaran2 at gmail.com>:
>>> On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:29:35 AM UTC-4, Josh Ayers wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I just noticed one of the pages on the Cython wiki was changed to spam.
>>>> See the page history below.  I reverted it, but it will probably happen
>>>> again.  It may be time to upgrade the captcha used for registering new
>>>> accounts.
>>
>> Man, there's a lot of spam on that wiki (see
>> http://wiki.cython.org/RecentChanges). Did you consider moving to a
>> GitHub wiki instead?
>
> As the owner of the hardware on which the cython wiki is running, I
> think this is well worth considering.   If somebody wants to do it,
> I'm happy to tar up the actual wiki install for them, so they can
> somehow try to auto-convert all the pages...

+1 Spam has increased a lot lately.

What I really would like is a publicly editable wiki whose changes
have to go through an approval first (e.g. a pull request).
Unfortunately, despite expectations, github wikis don't work like
this. I do really like the idea of the wiki being backed by a repo
rather than some opaque format though. Anyone know of anything like
that?

We could also look at locking down the wiki to trac account owners
only. This should probably be done right now. (I'm not sure how to do
it though.) Also, I think much of the wiki content should be moved
into the docs instead.

- Robert