Difference between revisions of "User talk:Doe"

Revision as of 10:48, 20 July 2006

Don't know who you are, but I just wanted to thank you for showing up and helping to get the wiki moving along. It really helps to have more people involved in the project. Please let me know if you need any help, or if I can answer any questions. stuart [at] the louverture project [dot] org --Stumax 11:23, 29 Sep 2005 (PDT)

Doe, I continue to be blown away by the work you're doing lately. Thank you so much!

I was taking a look at the front page the other day. I really think it needs to be changed to reflect some of the new material we have online. I might have some time this weekend to take do an update, but feel free to dive in and muck about with it, if you like. --Stumax 07:53, 14 Dec 2005 (PST)

Doe - I've added a spam filter that disallows span tags (can't remember right now if it's all span tags or just certain ones.) It's really made a difference in the amount of spam hits we get. I wasn't sure if you use span tags in your posts or not. If you have any issues, let me know. --Stumax 13:56, 23 February 2006 (PST)

Okay, this is getting ridiculous. This is one of a couple of wikis I'm involved with that has been getting slammed by spam in the past week or so. I've got some ideas about how to tackle this, and since you've been the primary contributor to the Louverture Project lately, I wanted to run a couple of things by you.

First, I hate the idea of requiring registration in order to edit a page, but I may have no choice if I can't find a better spam-blocking method, and it will probably provide us some immediate respite from the spam attacks. What do you think about requiring registration?

Secondly, I'd like to restructure the domain so that the wiki shows up at the first level (i.e., so you don't have to add /wiki to the domain name). The blog was a nice idea, but the wiki is the real focus, and should take the prime position on the domain. The side benefit of that would be that I could then let my hosting service manage the mediawiki installation, making software upgrades easier (and therefore, theoretically, better resistance to spam). I think I can write the htaccess file so that everything redirects properly, but there may be some issues. It will certainly mean that the wiki will be unavailable for a time while I'm reconfiguring everything. Do you have any thoughts on whether this is a good idea or not? Also, do you have a preference on when this happens? I'd probably prefer to tackle this over a weekend.

I'm really happy with the way the wiki is growing. Thanks again for all you do.

--Stuart 10:48, 20 July 2006 (PDT)