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On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 12:59:41PM -0400, Anita Kuno wrote:
> On 05/10/2016 12:48 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
> >>> Hmm... that's unfortunate, as we were trying to get some of our less
> >>> ephemeral items out of random etherpads and into the wiki (which has the
> >>> value of being google indexed).
> > 
> > Yeah, I'm kinda surprised anyone would consider a wiki-less world. I'm
> > definitely bummed at the thought of losing it.
> > 
> >> The Google indexing is also what makes the wiki so painful... After 6
> >> years most of the content there is inaccurate or outdated. It's a
> >> massive effort to clean it up without breaking the Google juice, and
> >> nobody has the universal knowledge to determine if pages are still
> >> accurate or not. We are bitten every day by newcomers finding wrong
> >> information on the wiki and acting using it. It's getting worse every
> >> day we keep on using it.
> > 
> > Sure, I think we all feel the pain of the stale information on the wiki.
> > What if we were to do what we do for bug or review purges and make a
> > list of pages, in reverse order of how recently they've been updated?
> > Then we can have a few sprints to tag obviously outdated things to
> > purge, and perhaps some things that just need some freshening.
> > 
> > There are a lot of nova-related things on the wiki that are the
> > prehistory equivalent of specs, most of which are very misleading to
> > people about the current state of things. I would think we could purge a
> > ton of stuff like that pretty quickly. I'll volunteer to review such a
> > list from the nova perspective.
> > 
> >> * Deprecate the current wiki and start over with another wiki (with
> >> stronger ACL support ?)
> > 
> > I'm somewhat surprised that this is an issue, because I thought that the
> > wiki requires an ubuntu login. Are spammers really getting ubuntu logins
> > so they can come over and deface our wiki?
> 
> Yes.

Rather than blocking all new accounts, can we simply restrict new wiki accounts
to people who've signed the CLA ? That would at least allow all people who
have taken the decision to become project contributors to continue to get
access to the wiki. We surely won't have large numbers of spammers signing
the CLA ??

Regards,
Daniel
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