Re: [Libvir] Wiki Pages?

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:38:48PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:47:37AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > My previous experience hosting a Wiki on xmlsoft.org (a.k.a. libvirt.org) > > has been rather painful, admitedly that was a few years ago ... > > I'm not sure what's the best way, hosting yet another wiki or reusing > > an existing one. > > Wikis, as you point out, require active management. > > I'm running several low-traffic OCaml wikis (might as well advertise > them: http://ocaml-tutorial.org/ and http://cocan.org/) with > reasonable success. We require authenticated email addresses for all > editing, a diff of all edits are CC'd daily to subscribers, and we > have people who act as editors for particular pages / sections of the > wiki. > > This has controlled spam reasonably successfully. One Ubuntu > developer who shall remain nameless turned out to have a sideline in > blackhat "SEO" (wiki spamming) and actually signed up with his valid > email address to spam the wiki. This was spotted almost instantly and > he was kicked off. We had another case where someone signed up using > http://mailinator.com and set up a http://bugmenot.com account which > we also found quickly and eliminated. The daily emailed diffs of the > whole wiki, plus the ability to roll back a day, basically make any > long-term wiki spam impossible to carry out (or so we think ...[1]) > > The benefits of all this management can be useful, user-driven > resources, and _if_ carefully structured and edited, this can be > better than Google + mailing lists or asking the same questions over > and over on IRC. Well if you have maintainance experience, why not ... except libvirt.org is a RHEL-4 box, i.e. not the easiest for bleeding edge stuff. if you feel this is reasonnable, and won't waste too much time, I agree this can be really useful too, I'm fine with the idea.