new wiki.zope.org editor login
Simon Michael <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.devel |
|---|---|
| Organization | Joyful Systems |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hey all.. the shared login for wiki.zope.org editing has been discovered by a spammer, so I've changed the password. The login is now zope, edit0r. See the message below for more context. Best, -Simon In 2011/05 I wrote: > Dear all, > > edit spam across the wiki.zope.org wikis, gradually increasing over > the years, has reached multiple incidents per day, multiple days per > month. Current cleanup procedures take too much time (and are not 100% > thorough - spam remains in history) and I don't want to spend time > developing cleverer defenses. Therefore, from today making changes on > any of the wiki.zope.org wikis requires authentication (a zwiki > username cookie is no longer enough.) > > This marks the transition of our wikis from those early, lowest- > possible-barrier-to-entry wiki days, to the modern era of mandatory > access control. :-/ > > Since there is no member management software in place to allow you to > self-register, to get a login you'll need to either > > - - ask an admin to make one for you. The current wiki.zope.org admin > users are: Simon Michael, Andreas Jung, Baiju Muthukadan, Sascha > Welter, Michael Haubenwallner, Fred Drake, Jim Fulton, Ken Manheimer, > Kevin Teague. > > - - use this generic login: zope, zope. The downside of using this a lot > is that edit history will become less useful. > > Also, on wikis using the default skin (all but the zope3 wiki), to > trigger a login prompt you'll need to manually visit some restricted > url. Eg append /editform to any page, like so: > http://wiki.zope.org/zope2/Zope2Wiki/editform > > I hope this will stop the spam, and not inconvenience editors too > much. Please let me know if you have authenticated and still can't edit. > > If you are interested in improving this setup, doing any other > maintenance of the zope wikis, or taking over as zope wiki czar - > please step forward! I'd be happy to mentor and provide all needed > support. > > Best, > - -Simon _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [email protected] https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )