[PD] pdpedia and spam

[dmotd]

philip, 

i understand yr frustration with the
pdpedia, but i am still of the belief
that pd and its numerous (count
thousands) of objects (and abstractions)
do need a pure reference online, and i
do believe the wiki format suits
maintaining a said reference.

i know that there are some reservations
to using captchas for editing wikis but
you are quite right, this thing has hit
the spam bot engines and they are not
going to cease the bombardment.

also the mediawiki engine last i checked
is getting really dated and could
desperately use a serverside upgrade.

perhaps there are some other volunteers
that could help iem maintain the site
infrustructure? -i personally don't
think that mediawiki is the perfect fit
for this project but its obviously a
decent and professional editing platform.

the other option is to create a parser
for the internal documentation, that can
build an online reference from svn
sources, this has been a minor pet
project of mine but i have nothing
exciting to report, perhaps in the not
too distant future.

there are days i'd kill for a book next
to me to solve all these problems, but 
more on that later (anyone working to 
similar goals?)

in the meantime can we maybe put the
wiki on editing freeze until the spam
issue is resolved?

thanks for your efforts,

dmotd


Philip Potter wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm the only active wikiadmin of pdpedia (at
> http://wiki.puredata.info/). It is a persistent target of spam and I
> put quite a bit of effort into cleaning it up. Unfortunately my life
> is now busier than it once was and I have begun to ask myself: is it
> worth keeping clean? Is pdpedia a useful resource? Do people here use
> it much, or at all?
> 
> The recent changes shows how much work is involved:
> http://wiki.puredata.info/en/Special:Recentchanges
> I would say that my spamfighting edits outnumber regular content edits
> by about 50 to 1.
> 
> Given that it doesn't seem to be used much, I am considering stepping
> down and leaving it to the spam fiends. But of course I can only see
> information about editors -- I don't know how many readers there are.
> 
> There are plenty of other pd documentation projects -- the FLOSS
> manual, the articles at http://puredata.info/docs, the online help --
> will pdpedia be missed?
> 
> Philip
> 
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