[TOS] Wipe the wiki?

[Tom Callaway]

I've got "fix the wiki" on my immediate to-do list, which practically means next week. On Nov 19, 2014 5:01 PM, "Hislop,Gregory" <hislopg at drexel.edu> wrote:
Hi Karsten,

Last week we ran a POSSE at Red Hat and the issues with TOS came up several times.  In addition to the spam pages (and tons of spam accounts), the “count the cats” captcha required for creating an account is broken.

Tom Callaway, Gina Likins, Heidi Ellis and I discussed TOS status and hope to get some tasks going to improve things.  In my case, I’m going to look at the possibility of getting some student hours on this, but realistically, that probably means sometime in January given the term schedule.  If others can work on this sooner, I’m all for it.

I do think that the existing content pages should be saved.  While even those pages need tending, there’s some useful stuff there.  I also think we should move to a moderated approach to creating user accounts.

Cheers,

Greg Hislop

From: tos [mailto:tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Joel Sherrill
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 3:04 PM
To: Discussions about Teaching Open Source
Subject: Re: [TOS] Wipe the wiki?

Sounds like a crowd source task for those classes where you want to learn
our to contribute to a community. :)

--joel
RTEMS

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com<mailto:kwade at redhat.com>> wrote:
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Wow. I just went looking for something on the TOS wiki, thought a look
at "all pages" would help:

http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Special:AllPages

I think we have to admit that 99% of the wiki are now spam pages.

My first thought is to organize a few sprints to find the few pages
worth moving over (I'd reckon 25 to 75 pages?), and then close the
wiki and reopen a new one with attribution intact, etc.

Darn ... that last bit makes it hard. Also hard to tell if we're doing
more harm than good right now with our scant content-to-spam ratio.

Thoughts? I can make a few scheduled sprints to find good content,
would be interested in working up a plan, but I don't think I'm a good
person to organize and lead the effort.

- - Karsten
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