[SAC] Spam in Wiki

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Martin Spott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:09:27PM -0700, Hamish wrote:
> 
>> while we're at it, https logins for the mediawiki would be nice,
>> especially if the LDAP password is considered to be used for
>> that in future.
>>
>> fwiw, OSM has figured that one out for their mediawiki & we can
>> just ask them about it if we get stuck.
> 
> As someone already said before, the real difficulty would be mapping
> the Wiki user names to OSGeo LDAP accounts. When we looked at this
> issue a few years ago, the task already seemed almost impossible to
> accomplish because people happily tend to use obscure nicknames
> wherever possible ....
> 
> The technical part is easy compared to that,
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Martin.

I guess at one point we will just have to break things and some people
may have to use two ids for some time. No big harm. Yes, maybe some edit
statistics get lost but bexond that disruption should be fairly minimal.
The other option is to leave things as they are forever and in the long
run this seems to be causing more trouble.

+1 to ask OSM for help on this.

Cheers,
Arnulf.

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