On 14/01/2013 10:31 a.m., 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).
Adri formally resigned fom the Project, IMO he can be removed from wiki
admin.
> 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.
Can we grep the wiki data to locate those other user accounts?
Amos
Received on Mon Jan 14 2013 - 09:15:51 MST
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