On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:35:51PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > 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. FYI, the et.redhat.com which hosts virt-manager.org / ovirt.org / freeipa.org is setup to provide Wikis - we can easily add a libvirt mediawiki instance there if desired. Dan. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list