What do you think about this wiki, seen from the technical side? Especially, how the door is wide open for spam and the lack of upgrades.
For my part, I consider RepRap wiki and forum to be one of the most important resources the community has and without it, we'd get lost of our centerpiece. Accordingly, I consider it to be important to keep this centerpiece healthy.
For several months now I try to get this straight. As much as it's possible to plan without having access to the server, I laid out a detailed plan on how to do the wiki upgrade. Likely successful plans to fight spam exist. On the reprap-admin mailing list everybody agrees and it was said I shall receive server-level privileges, still I simply don't get them. The same is true for other volunteers. No comments, no alternatives, just silence.
The expected workload for the current server-level admins is minimal, like a minute or two. Regardless they talk, if they talk at all, about plans, promises, or simply ignore the matter. This situation is ongoing for several years(!) now. "Waiting", like it's sometimes recommended to me, gives exactly nothing. Actually, the opposite is true, encouraged people drop out one by one. Most recently Calcetin, a professional admin who offered to install a new forum software.
What to do? I think it's time to give these server-level admins a gentle push. Please help by expressing your view of the situation and how you want the volunteers to be supported. Here are some addresses:
reprap-admin mailing list: reprap-admin@lists.reprap.org (moderated, but the moderator is actually one of the admins)
Adrian Bowyer: Twitter: @adrianbowyer Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Wiki: [reprap.org]
Thanks a lot for supporting RepRap forum & wiki,
Markus / Traumflug
tl;dr
RepRaps' server-level admins are lazy and need a gentle push. Sufficient volunteers are waiting. Please support the volunteers by writing email to the server level admins.
A number of facts:
- Monitoring software of the RepRap server indicates between 5 and 10 outages every day.
- A person I contacted a few days ago on this topic, which would likely be seen as one of the RepRap heros here, answered:
- Even RepRapPro, commercial spin-off of Adrian Bowyer and friends, has stopped using the RepRap wiki. You can see this here: [reprap.org] [reprap.org] [reprap.org]
- We have between 70 and 120 spam entries and about 40 new spam-bot user accounts in the wiki every single day: [reprap.org]
- We have backups. If anything goes wrong, rolling back into the current state is a matter of a few minutes.
For my part, I consider RepRap wiki and forum to be one of the most important resources the community has and without it, we'd get lost of our centerpiece. Accordingly, I consider it to be important to keep this centerpiece healthy.
For several months now I try to get this straight. As much as it's possible to plan without having access to the server, I laid out a detailed plan on how to do the wiki upgrade. Likely successful plans to fight spam exist. On the reprap-admin mailing list everybody agrees and it was said I shall receive server-level privileges, still I simply don't get them. The same is true for other volunteers. No comments, no alternatives, just silence.
The expected workload for the current server-level admins is minimal, like a minute or two. Regardless they talk, if they talk at all, about plans, promises, or simply ignore the matter. This situation is ongoing for several years(!) now. "Waiting", like it's sometimes recommended to me, gives exactly nothing. Actually, the opposite is true, encouraged people drop out one by one. Most recently Calcetin, a professional admin who offered to install a new forum software.
What to do? I think it's time to give these server-level admins a gentle push. Please help by expressing your view of the situation and how you want the volunteers to be supported. Here are some addresses:
reprap-admin mailing list: reprap-admin@lists.reprap.org (moderated, but the moderator is actually one of the admins)
Adrian Bowyer: Twitter: @adrianbowyer Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Wiki: [reprap.org]
Thanks a lot for supporting RepRap forum & wiki,
Markus / Traumflug
tl;dr
RepRaps' server-level admins are lazy and need a gentle push. Sufficient volunteers are waiting. Please support the volunteers by writing email to the server level admins.
A number of facts:
- Monitoring software of the RepRap server indicates between 5 and 10 outages every day.
- A person I contacted a few days ago on this topic, which would likely be seen as one of the RepRap heros here, answered:
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I stopped using the wiki RSS feed a long time ago because of the amount of spam [...] The level of spam in the forums is getting ridiculous too. [...] I no longer feel in touch with the Reprap world.
- Even RepRapPro, commercial spin-off of Adrian Bowyer and friends, has stopped using the RepRap wiki. You can see this here: [reprap.org] [reprap.org] [reprap.org]
- We have between 70 and 120 spam entries and about 40 new spam-bot user accounts in the wiki every single day: [reprap.org]
- We have backups. If anything goes wrong, rolling back into the current state is a matter of a few minutes.