[foodhackingbase] Wiki relaunch

[Erwin Kooi]

Hmmm.

Either I am a bot, have not sufficient foodhacking skills or am to stupid
for the anti-spam questions...
what can you make from mate? tea and jam (really, you should try it!) are
not correct
what is the wiki about? foodhacking/food hacking are not correct

Help?

-Egeltje


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Alexander Dietrich
<alexander at dietrich.cx>wrote:

> Very cool, thanks! Signing up worked without a problem, let us know when
> you think the anti-spam mechanism is working reliably.
>
> If Frantisek isn't using "foodhackingbase.org" for anything other than
> the Wiki, why not use the existing SSL certificate and key? Otherwise
> something like "wiki.foodhackingbase.org" would be nice.
>
> For people without CAcert in their browser (yet), you could allow both
> HTTP and HTTPS access to the Wiki, but redirect to HTTPS when people try to
> access the login page. And maybe put a short note about CAcert on the main
> page.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander
> ---
> PGP Key: 0xC55A356B | https://dietrich.cx/pgp
>
>
> On 2014-01-23 04:49, Steffen Beyer wrote:
>
>> Hello to all,
>>
>> as a newbie I volunteered to help with the wiki, mainly solving the
>> spam problem. I learned about FHB at the 30C3 – although I did just
>> grab some tasty snacks, I got interested further while listening to one
>> of the Sondersendung podcasts afterwards, and I decided to engage.  :)
>>
>> Now a fresh MediaWiki is set up at Uberspace¹, temporarily reachable at
>>
>> https://fhb.canis.uberspace.de
>>
>> The server is located in Frankfurt, Germany, at the rh-tec facilities².
>>
>> The suggested hosting fee is 5€/month, while the first month is free.
>> To top up the account, money needs to be transferred to
>>
>> Beneficiary: Jonas Pasche
>> IBAN: DE35550501200200003978
>> BIC: MALADE51MNZ (Sparkasse Mainz)
>> Reference: Uberspace fhb
>>
>> To combat spam, I took the following measures:
>>
>> * require login to edit pages
>> * require account validation by email
>> * require Captcha for new user sign up
>>
>> I would suggest to change the foodhackingbase.org DNS now to point to
>> the new wiki³. The current state was saved and can be restored easily.
>> My idea is to wait with editing, let's say until Sunday, and see if the
>> spam injection is still a problem. If it is, I can revert back to the
>> clean state without any hassle and perform more hardening.
>>
>> The content structure has changed a little bit:
>>
>> Recipes are grouped in the "Recipe" namespace now. Projects and
>> Associated groups have been converted to categories – they weren't
>> real namespaces in the old wiki anyway, not set up properly in
>> LocalSettings. This is documented for editors within the wiki⁴. Of
>> course, this is not set in stone; let's see how it works out.
>>
>> Image resizing, thumbnails, should work now. Frantisek mentioned a
>> Flickr extension. Please enlighten me, what is missing in this regard?
>>
>> It would be nice to have one or two volunteers for user support. I.e.
>> the wiki sends mails to users with a certain sender address, e.g.
>> account validation. This address is dead currently, but I could set it
>> up to be forwarded to some nice people, handling feedback.
>>
>> Last point is SSL – the old wiki runs with a CAcert certificate which
>> produces a warning for most users. A commercial certificate would cost
>> 39€ for three years⁵. A compromise could be to run the wiki
>> unencrypted, using the above URL – and therefore the Uberspace
>> wildcard certificate – for administration. This would require
>> disciplined administrators, OTOH.  ,)
>>
>> I'm sure, there are some glitches in the new wiki instance. Just play
>> around and let me know. Good night!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> --
>> Steffen Beyer <steffen at beyer.io>
>>
>> ¹ https://uberspace.de
>> ² http://www.rh-tec.de
>> ³ DNS records (foodhackingbase.org, www.foodhackingbase.org):
>>     A -> 95.143.172.226
>>     AAAA -> 2001:1a50:11:0:5f:8f:ace2:11c
>> ⁴ https://fhb.canis.uberspace.de/wiki/Help:Categories_and_namespaces
>> ⁵ http://www.psw.net/ssl-zertifikate.cfm
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