Re: Wiki Abuse

I think it's a very good idea.
The notification can be 2 weeks before the deletion.
This will make sure everybody knows what is it about in time.
And maybe to send two notifications like first week then second one as a
response to the old thread.

Another idea:
If there is an option to move the files\data of these users outside the
wiki folders and if in two weeks\month no one will claim ownership on
these accounts erase them completely.

Eliezer

On 1/13/2013 11:31 PM, Kinkie wrote:
> Hi all,
> sorry for hijacking the -dev mailing list for a wiki policy
> discussion, it's however the most convenient forum to discuss this
> (off)topic.
>
> In the past months we have had some wiki-abuse. The write-access
> policy we have since some time has prevented this from becoming a
> serious issue, but in time the cruft of spammy accounts has started
> creating a performance problem: we have now 28k registered wiki
> accounts. Each of them requires some filesystem resources, which waste
> space (not a big deal) but create a strain on the performance of the
> server's filesystem. The result is slow page loads and starving of
> resources the other activities of the server.
>
> MoinMoin 2.0 (still a long way to go) will support email verification
> upon registration; but the best MoinMoin 1.9.6 (the latest release)
> has to offer is restricting the ability to create new accounts to Wiki
> Administrators (currently: Adri, hno, RobertC, Guido, Duane, Amos and
> me). I have implemented this (modulo implementation errors).
>
> The next steps, unless anyone has better advice, will be to send a
> notification to the users mailing-list, and remove all user accounts
> which do not belong to the Editors group. The only adversely-impacted
> users will be those who have subscribed for change notifications but
> do not belong to the editors group.
>
> Comments?
> Thanks,
>
> --
> /kinkie
>
Received on Sun Jan 13 2013 - 22:26:59 MST