Wiki RFC: Redirects, swarm tactics, etc.

[Ken Sharp]

I've just started looking at the Wiki myself. There's a lot of outdated 
stuff on there and it needs a lot of attention.

There's little hope of me helping with anything related to the actual 
programming but I'm willing to help with other stuff.

On 02/08/13 07:03, Kyle Auble wrote:
> So I've finished with pretty much all of the edits I had in mind for
> the wiki, but before I ride off into the sunset for a while, I wanted
> to toss out a few ideas.
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> 1. Do we want some kind of guideline on redirects for the wiki? Some
> stable "interface" pages to the main site might be good, but beyond
> that, I think minimizing redirects makes sense in this use case.
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> 2. There's still a lot of old/missing content on the wiki, and much
> of it requres a good sense of where the code is at. Also, it might be
> too overwhelming for one person to work in depth on more than a few
> pages at this point. I feel like a semi-coordinated swarm of editing
> might be the best bet for further improvements. I was picturing a
> table of all relevant pages, then people could adopt one or two to
> work on, then strike/delete a record once that page is finished. Any
> thoughts?
>
> 3. There are actually a few more fixes to the theme code at the head
> of my bitbucket repo (and also branches for 2 different Moinmoin
> upgrade paths). I'm cool with keeping the theme code for the near
> future; if and when we move it onto WineHQ's git server though, just
> let me know so I can note that I'm not upstream anymore.
>
> 4. Finally, spammers... they keep coming... and they're getting
> smarter. We can mostly stalemate them with the regex filter, but it
> blocks legit edits too sometimes (in very annoying fashion). In fact,
> I think there are a few of them that have learned to turn the filter
> against us by completely wiping pages with false positives so we
> can't revert the page. Are there any relatively easy things we could
> do to cut the spam? I don't know, but it's possible the newer version
> of Moinmoin has more potent anti-spam tools.
>
> -Kyle
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