[Xapian-discuss] Another http://XapianWiki.org

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:13:15PM +0100, James Aylett wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 09:14:58PM -0700, Kevin Duraj wrote:
> > I setup another Xapian Wiki to help users who wants to write and
> > keep their up to date examples for different bindings and
> > installations.  XapianWiki.orgis enabled for anyone to edit and
> > update old information. [...]
> 
> Erm - anyone can create an account on <http://wiki.xapian.org/> and
> contribute; surely it would be better to keep it all in one place?

I heartily agree.  While I appreciate the attempt to help, I can see no
sense at all in having two different wikis - it will just confuse new
users and dilute effort.

> > You're welcome to improve the information here, though you'll need
> > to create an account to make changes. We'd rather this wasn't
> > necessary but wiki spamming is an increasing problem.

Indeed - we require an account because it's the only spam prevention
method available in the ancient version of moinmoin that's currently
installed (short of reverting pages one-by-one by hand after the fact).

Recent versions of moinmoin require Python 2.3, and the box only has
2.2.  Coincidentally, the OS is due to be upgraded tonight so we should
be able to upgrade soon, and can then reconsider the spam avoidance
strategy if people feel it's an obstacle to contributions (from personal
experience, I can't be bothered to create an account just to fix a typo,
but I don't mind if I'm adding substantial content).

Cheers,
    Olly