Re: Spam on the wiki

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Spam on the wiki
Date: 2015-12-17 17:16:27
Message-ID: CA+OCxowi5C+xey9KMCo2ECSUisY4n-L36MJrx2Zt2+h_aAVifA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2015-12-17 16:01:52 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> I've shut the wiki down for the moment, pending that somebody who actually
>> knows anything about mediawiki shows up..
>
> I've not dealt with this in years, so I might be completely out of date
> here. But I think adding something like
> $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
> in the config ought to do the trick.
>
> Then we can add a 'approved users' group, and give those edit
> permissions. Not perfect, but ought to do as a first step.

Thanks - I've done something along those lines, and we've added the
active users from the last 30 days to a new editor group. If anyone
else wants to be added, they'll need to send email to request it for
the time being.

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