Debian Wiki Team

Infrastructure

Interacting with the team

Usual roles

There are 4 kinds of roles. Someone can handle multiple roles:

Also, DSA team manages the machine hosting the wiki.

Tasks

General

See also: Helping with wiki.debian.org

Wiki administrators

Remove spam and spammers

Watch RecentChanges for spam and when you find some, login to the wiki server and perform the following steps:

$ grep -r SomeWikiUser /srv/wiki.debian.org/var/moin/data/user/
/srv/wiki.debian.org/var/moin/data/user/xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xxxx:name=SomeWikiUser
$ sed -i -e s/disabled=0/disabled=1/ /srv/wiki.debian.org/var/moin/data/user/xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xxxx
$ sed -i -e s/quicklinks[]=/quicklinks[]=spammer/ /srv/wiki.debian.org/var/moin/data/user/xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xxxx
$ zgrep xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xxxx /srv/wiki.debian.org/var/moin/data/edit-log*
/srv/wiki.debian.org/var/moin/data/edit-log:1279950287000000    00000058        SAVE    APage   1.2.3.4 1.2.3.4 xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xxxx
$ zgrep 1.2.3.4 /srv/wiki.debian.org/var/moin/data/edit-log*
/srv/wiki.debian.org/var/moin/data/edit-log:1279950287000000    00000058        SAVE    APage   1.2.3.4 1.2.3.4 xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xxxx
$ $EDITOR /srv/wiki.debian.org/etc/moin/localsecrets.py
<modify the hosts_deny variable>
$ touch /srv/wiki.debian.org/bin/moin.wsgi
$ whois 1.2.3.4
$ mail abuse@example.com

Contacting the abuse address for the IP address is a good idea but is optional.

More stuff

Bits from Teams/DebianWiki

It is probably about time we did a "bits from ..." mail, here are some topics to discuss:

New wikiadm members

The Debian wiki team would like to welcome AsheeshLaroia and SteveMcIntyre to the wikiadm group.

DebConf10 BoF

ikiwiki ...

Reminders

?DebianBug links

other cool stuff that is unused

Call for help

If you see spam on the wiki, please ping one of the members of the wikiadm group so that the account can be disabled and the IP address banned.

Future directions

licensing stuff

ikiwiki?