[tei-council] TEI wiki

[Kevin Hawkins]

Thanks, Piotr.

In Paris Council agreed that the TEI webmasters should investigate 
solutions to the spam problem.  I'll write to David and copy Piotr as an 
interested party to see if we can fix this and, while we're at it, add 
the other extensions mentioned below.

Kevin

On 11/18/11 9:11 AM, Piotr Bański wrote:
> Congrats, Kevin!
>
> Let me take this opportunity to mention that since the end of our
> meeting, there have been nearly 70 registrations of automated spamming
> accounts. Since the end, mind you -- since the beginning: 90.
> I do not have access to the registration log (it could be accessed via
> an extension in the current wiki, or via internal functionality that was
> introduced in v. 1.14), but we can all well imagine that the number of
> real registrations during this time was very close to 0.
>
> So here's a few links that may make the process of wiki maintenance
> easier to our Webmasters:
>
> Our version number: 1.11.0 (from 2007, I'm guessing)
>
> http://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/Special:Version
>
> Current version number: 1.18.0rc1
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
>
> (a lot of improvements appeared there in the meantime, see also:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading )
>
> Relevant extensions:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit
> (we have the latter but will surely need to upgrade)
>
> potentially: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UserAdmin
> (to be able to purge all those thousands of false accounts)
>
> possibly:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete
> (for user merging -- there are several real duplicate accounts now; this
> is not painful)
>
> surely:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
> (this is used by the English Wikipedia, so I would go for it)
>
> HTH,
>
>    Piotr
>
>
> On 15/11/11 19:34, James Cummings wrote:
>>
>> Shortly before the TEI-C website went down, Kevin generously
>> offered to take my place as Assistant Webmaster for the TEI-C
>> Website. (Still under David Sewell as Webmaster.) I'm sure the
>> outage was just a coincidence and not a dark omen for the future.
>>
>> Both the Council at its recent meeting, and the Board in response
>> to some suggestions from Marin Dacos have been discussing
>> improvements to the website.  As such I predict that Kevin will
>> find himself with some work to do in improving it!
>>
>> Many thanks Kevin!
>>
>> -James
>>
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