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Re: GCC Wiki, struggling to make a new user
- From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at elastic dot org>
- Cc: James Greenhalgh <james dot greenhalgh at arm dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, overseers at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 14:39:19 +0000
- Subject: Re: GCC Wiki, struggling to make a new user
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <20140205141819 dot GA24411 at arm dot com> <20140205142553 dot GG4696 at elastic dot org>
On 5 February 2014 14:25, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
>
>> I'm trying to create a new account for the GCC wiki using the
>> account creation page at:
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/HomePage?action=newaccount
>> but things are not going well.
>>
>> I fill in the form and click create account. After thinking for a
>> while the page returns a Gateway Error. [...]
>
> This mirrors the symptoms of other sourceware-hosted moinmoin wikis
> that had been overrun with spam users. We cleaned a bunch of them off
> of glibc the other day, basically removing all but the
> trusted-editors, and things are much faster. (Legitimate non-editor
> users can create new users, or email to restore their purged info.)
>
> Are y'all interested in the same treatment for the gcc wiki?
Someone (I think it was you :-) already locked it down some time ago
to combat a spam attack.
These are the trusted editors:
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/EditorGroup