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[OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki *Call for Volunteers*

[Etienne G. <et...@cs...>]

  Sorry to repeat the mail; the subject should have "call for
volunteers" in it.


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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:01:00 -0500
From: Etienne Grossmann <et...@cs...>
To: Todd Neal <to...@gm...>
Cc: David Bateman <Dav...@mo...>,
   oct...@li..., et...@cs...
Subject: Re: [OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki


  Hi All,

this mail is to ask for volunteers who would take the responsibility
to : 

- Repair daily any defacement that occurs on the wiki
- Update the bannedhost page of the wiki.

Please answer to this list if you're interested. If volunteers show
up, I'll open up the wiki.

  Cheers,

  Etienne

PS I am *not* a volunteer.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:33:59AM -0600, Todd Neal wrote:
# > The problem ith a banned host page is that most spammer come in through
# > proxies, so they just pick a new proxies and try again.. So a bannedhost
# > page is a lame anti-spam measure.. It really needs to be upto date.. If
# > you want an effective measure in the same vain, see
# > http://blacklist.chongqed.org as a means of preventing links that match
# > a certain regex... The people at chongqed keep this upto date, and you
# > can see other links on their pages on how to set this up.
# > 
# 
# Those regex's can be put in the BannedContent page and that would
# prevent those sites from being advertised.  I don't know how often
# http://blacklist.chongqed.org is updated but we could grab the list
# from EmacsWiki to start off with as well.
# 
# It looks like all that is needed now is for a few volunteers to get an
# admin password so they can modify the BannedContent and BannedHosts
# page and check the wiki daily for new spam.
# 
# Todd
# 
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Re: [OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki *Call for Volunteers*

[Todd N. <to...@gm...>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:05:39 -0500, Etienne Grossmann
<et...@cs...> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:01:00 -0500
> From: Etienne Grossmann <et...@cs...>
> To: Todd Neal <to...@gm...>
> Cc: David Bateman <Dav...@mo...>,
>    oct...@li..., et...@cs...
> Subject: Re: [OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki
>
>   Hi All,
>
> this mail is to ask for volunteers who would take the responsibility
> to :
>
> - Repair daily any defacement that occurs on the wiki
> - Update the bannedhost page of the wiki.
>
> Please answer to this list if you're interested. If volunteers show
> up, I'll open up the wiki.
>
>   Cheers,
>
>   Etienne
>
> PS I am *not* a volunteer.

I'll volunteer to help with this maintenance.  It may also help to
install the XML::RSS Perl module.  That should be all that is needed
for an RSS feed at http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?action=rss to start
working.  This would allow one to check the recent changes page
several times a day easily without loading the entire page.

Todd

Re: [OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki *Call for Volunteers*

[David B. <Dav...@mo...>]

Etienne Grossmann wrote:

>  Sorry to repeat the mail; the subject should have "call for
>volunteers" in it.
>
>  
>

I don't mind volunteering, I'd remove the spam as I visit in any case. 
But I think there needs to be a large number of users with this 
priviledge to reduce the total workload.

D.

Re: [OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki *Call for Volunteers*

[Todd N. <to...@gm...>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:03:37 +0100, David Bateman
<Dav...@mo...> wrote:
> Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> 
> >  Sorry to repeat the mail; the subject should have "call for
> >volunteers" in it.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> I don't mind volunteering, I'd remove the spam as I visit in any case.
> But I think there needs to be a large number of users with this
> priviledge to reduce the total workload.
> 
> D.

Removing spam could be done by any user, but adding the url's to the
BannedContent page is reserved for Admin users with Oddmuse.  This
prevents someone from adding things like "." to the BannedContent page
which would match any post.

Todd

Re: [OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki *Call for Volunteers*

[David B. <Dav...@mo...>]

Todd Neal wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:03:37 +0100, David Bateman
><Dav...@mo...> wrote:
>  
>
>>Etienne Grossmann wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>> Sorry to repeat the mail; the subject should have "call for
>>>volunteers" in it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I don't mind volunteering, I'd remove the spam as I visit in any case.
>>But I think there needs to be a large number of users with this
>>priviledge to reduce the total workload.
>>
>>D.
>>    
>>
>
>Removing spam could be done by any user, but adding the url's to the
>BannedContent page is reserved for Admin users with Oddmuse.  This
>prevents someone from adding things like "." to the BannedContent page
>which would match any post.
>
>Todd
>  
>

I was adding the links and keywords to a link to chongqed at

http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?RemoveDefacements

so that the spam would backfire as the pagerank would go to chongqed who 
describes what scumbags these spammers are. So adding to BannedContent 
would be even easier...

D.

Re: [OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki *Call for Volunteers*

[Etienne G. <et...@cs...>]

  Hi Volunteers,

it's good to see willing people! I propose the following:

- I give an admin pwd to volunteers (not via email: I send my tel # to
  volunteers or vice versa and I give you a password). 
- When volunteers feel comfy about the security level, I open the
  wiki.
- I continue doing all maintenance that requires loging in the wiki
  host machine, at my previous work  place. I am not root there. Extra
  perl modules can be installed using the PREFIX option, but, Todd,
  you will need to explain me clearly what I should do.

  Sounds ok?

  Etienne

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:28:09AM -0600, Todd Neal wrote:
# On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:05:39 -0500, Etienne Grossmann
[snip]
# >
# >   Hi All,
# >
# > this mail is to ask for volunteers who would take the responsibility
# > to :
# >
# > - Repair daily any defacement that occurs on the wiki
# > - Update the bannedhost page of the wiki.
# >
# > Please answer to this list if you're interested. If volunteers show
# > up, I'll open up the wiki.
# >
# >   Cheers,
# >
# >   Etienne
# >
# > PS I am *not* a volunteer.
# 
# I'll volunteer to help with this maintenance.  It may also help to
# install the XML::RSS Perl module.  That should be all that is needed

  I'll try to do that, but I don't really grok this part.

# for an RSS feed at http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?action=rss to start
# working.  This would allow one to check the recent changes page
# several times a day easily without loading the entire page.
# 
# Todd
# 
[snip]

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Re: [OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki *Call for Volunteers*

[Corey H. <ch...@cs...>]

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Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> - I give an admin pwd to volunteers (not via email: I send my tel # to
>   volunteers or vice versa and I give you a password). 

  Depending on the difference between your timezone and mine, this might
be ok.  However if we have volunteers from outside the US, just
scheduling the phone call might be a pain.
  If you're worried about securely sending passwords, GPG/PGP might be
the way to go.

crh
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