[fdo] [Fontconfig] Time to kill the fontconfig wiki?

Marc Balmer marc at msys.ch
Wed Dec 1 07:51:27 PST 2010


Am 01.12.10 16:35, schrieb Alan Coopersmith:
> Michael Garvin wrote:
>> Sacrificing collaboration because of the spammers (moving to static
>> pages) seems undesirable :(  Are there options to make it more secure? 
>> Improving security is probably a good investment.
> 
> Can you find a single page in the fontconfig wiki that anyone has ever
> collaborated on?    Other than the front page, which is locked, the only
> other pages in the wiki about fontconfig itself are the old release notes
> that Keith posted years ago.
> 
> If it was actually being used, like some of the other wiki's on freedesktop,
> I would suggest better policing - we greatly reduced spam in some of the
> other wikis by simply nuking it quickly so that the spammers moved on to
> targets like fontconfig where their spam lasted longer, and by keeping the
> spam words blacklist updated to block the domains they were trying to link to.
> 

I am supporting Alan here.  I think removing the wiki is a good option.

- Marc



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