Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Spam on gnewsense wiki

[r. siddharth]

On Monday 16 January 2012 10:18 PM, Ben Wong wrote:
> I noticed on wikipedia that the Gnewsense project hasn't had a release
> in over two years and is now considered "dormant".

We are not dormant. Samgee[1] and others are working on the next major 
release. We desperately are in need of developers. If you have the mind 
to join us in getting the next release out to the public, we did be 
happy to have you.

Look at this page[2], to see if anything interests you.

> To check if it really was [dormant], I went to gnewsense.org
> and looked at the recent changes:
>
>    http://www.gnewsense.org/RecentChanges
>
> I was surprised to find that there is a bunch of spam that has been
> added.  The wiki says that the pages are "immutable", which makes me
> wonder if they were posted using a security hole in the gnewsense wiki
> (Moin Moin).  Perhaps the wiki software needs to be updated?
>
> Here's an example spam:
>
>    http://www.gnewsense.org/download%20full%20games%20free
>
> If possible, please enable TEXTCHA to prevent these spams:
>
>    http://moinmo.in/HelpOnSpam


We are aware of the spam making it to the gnewsense wiki. Samgee[1] 
removes these pages periodically. Anyways, I thank you Ben, for getting 
this issue to notice again. I have CCed this reply to the gNewSense 
developer's mailing list.


[1] : http://www.gnewsense.org/samgee2
[2] : http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/HowToHelp
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r. siddharth