Wiki is being hammered by spammers

[Rosanne DiMesio]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 10:42:26 -0600
Jeremy Newman <jnewman at codeweavers.com> wrote:

> I've been fine with us hosting the Wiki for quite some time.
> 
> What I propose is that we start fresh with a Mediawiki install on 
> WineHQ.org and manually migrate over to  it. I know migration tools 
> exist, but perhaps it would be better if we do it manually. 

I can help. Just tell me what I need to do.

> 
> At first we could keep it locked down to only a few editors until the 
> migration is done. After that, we can slowly open it up more.
> 

Based on what I went through yesterday with our FrontPage spammer, we may want to always limit important pages (e.g., FrontPage, FAQ) to trusted editors.

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Rosanne DiMesio
dimesio at earthlink.net