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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