[SAC] Spam in Wiki

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

On 08/30/2011 02:25 AM, Martin Spott wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:33:39PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Martin Spott <Martin.Spott at mgras.net> wrote:
> 
>>> Pending consensus over at least how to deal with the various "User"
>>> pages which will loose proper assignment to their respective owners
>>> after switching over to LDAP authentication.
>>>
>>> Should we remove _all_ user pages and re-establish individual pages
>>> upon request from a backup ?
>>
>> Any chance to save at least some of them though an easy lookup table?
>> Say when the name is unique, rename the Wiki page to the ldap name?
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:58:46PM -0700, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way we could "prepare" users - e.g. have them align their user names
>> beforehand somehow?
> 
> Quite a lot of users have registered their preferred username on the
> Wiki first and later, when they began bothering about the LDAP login
> for use with Trac or anything else, it might have already been
> occupied. Thus I expect many usernames not to map reasonably between
> Wiki and LDAP. Note, we're talking about approx. 8000 Wiki users.
> 
> The only way I'd envision to create a 'robust' schema would be to ask
> LDAP users to write down their Wiki account into the LDAP schema and,
> at the same time, to ask every Wiki user to write down their LDAP
> account name into the user preferences on the Wiki. Every pair that
> doesn't match would have to get massaged manually.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Martin.

Martin,
sounds like a plan, good from my side.

And thanks for taking the initiative to get this done finally. At one
point we simply had to flip the switch and it is about time we did.

Cheers,
Arnulf

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