* Re: GCC Wiki, struggling to make a new user [not found] <20140205141819.GA24411@arm.com> @ 2014-02-05 14:26 ` Frank Ch. Eigler 2014-02-05 14:39 ` Jonathan Wakely 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Frank Ch. Eigler @ 2014-02-05 14:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James Greenhalgh, gcc; +Cc: overseers Hi - > I'm trying to create a new account for the GCC wiki using the > account creation page at: > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/HomePage?action=newaccount > but things are not going well. > > I fill in the form and click create account. After thinking for a > while the page returns a Gateway Error. [...] This mirrors the symptoms of other sourceware-hosted moinmoin wikis that had been overrun with spam users. We cleaned a bunch of them off of glibc the other day, basically removing all but the trusted-editors, and things are much faster. (Legitimate non-editor users can create new users, or email to restore their purged info.) Are y'all interested in the same treatment for the gcc wiki? - FChE ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: GCC Wiki, struggling to make a new user 2014-02-05 14:26 ` GCC Wiki, struggling to make a new user Frank Ch. Eigler @ 2014-02-05 14:39 ` Jonathan Wakely 2014-02-05 14:41 ` Jonathan Wakely 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Jonathan Wakely @ 2014-02-05 14:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Frank Ch. Eigler; +Cc: James Greenhalgh, gcc, overseers On 5 February 2014 14:25, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Hi - > >> I'm trying to create a new account for the GCC wiki using the >> account creation page at: >> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/HomePage?action=newaccount >> but things are not going well. >> >> I fill in the form and click create account. After thinking for a >> while the page returns a Gateway Error. [...] > > This mirrors the symptoms of other sourceware-hosted moinmoin wikis > that had been overrun with spam users. We cleaned a bunch of them off > of glibc the other day, basically removing all but the > trusted-editors, and things are much faster. (Legitimate non-editor > users can create new users, or email to restore their purged info.) > > Are y'all interested in the same treatment for the gcc wiki? Someone (I think it was you :-) already locked it down some time ago to combat a spam attack. These are the trusted editors: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/EditorGroup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: GCC Wiki, struggling to make a new user 2014-02-05 14:39 ` Jonathan Wakely @ 2014-02-05 14:41 ` Jonathan Wakely 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Jonathan Wakely @ 2014-02-05 14:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Frank Ch. Eigler; +Cc: James Greenhalgh, gcc, overseers On 5 February 2014 14:39, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 5 February 2014 14:25, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >> Hi - >> >>> I'm trying to create a new account for the GCC wiki using the >>> account creation page at: >>> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/HomePage?action=newaccount >>> but things are not going well. >>> >>> I fill in the form and click create account. After thinking for a >>> while the page returns a Gateway Error. [...] >> >> This mirrors the symptoms of other sourceware-hosted moinmoin wikis >> that had been overrun with spam users. We cleaned a bunch of them off >> of glibc the other day, basically removing all but the >> trusted-editors, and things are much faster. (Legitimate non-editor >> users can create new users, or email to restore their purged info.) >> >> Are y'all interested in the same treatment for the gcc wiki? > > Someone (I think it was you :-) already locked it down some time ago > to combat a spam attack. > > These are the trusted editors: > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/EditorGroup Oh I misread, sorry. You mean deleting all non-editor users? Since they're effectively read-only at the moment, and could just recreate their account if they want to, I see no reason not to purge them. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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