Community Roles/Wiki Gardener

Time commitment

 * ~5m per day on average (though you can do more!)

People

 * Harry Wood (talk)


 * Oludotun Babayemi
 * Animesh Chatterjee
 * Chris Sakkas
 * Jon Tennant

Tasks
Regularly checks website for spam and other problems. If you use a feed reader like Google Reader, you can subscribe to the Atom feeds of recent changes for each wiki. Otherwise you can visit the page of recent changes using your web browser. Spam problems on these channels have currently (Oct 2013) all be tackled one way or another but things change, so worth checking these:
 * http://wiki.okfn.org/ - Open Knowledge Foundation wiki (Recent changes, Atom feed) - This now has some fairly onerous anti-spam measure deployed
 * http://wiki.opendataday.org/ - OpenDataDay wiki (recent changes) - We gave up and locked this wiki :-(
 * http://wiki.ckan.org/ - CKAN wiki (Atom feed) on github. - Do github wikis have spam problems? generally not
 * http://wiki.openliterature.net/ - Open Literature wiki (Atom feed) TODO: Does this exist any more? Seems not

Spam
The best solution to spam actually is to have an active community of people who zap it quickly:
 * Delete new spam pages
 * delete all content on the page and replace with a   label.
 * Admin users can perform a permanent delete later in bulk (if you are admin user, just delete!)  (Note: Actually the perma-delete function here is currently broken)
 * For spam changes to legitimate pages revert / undo.
 * 'view history' tab -> select an older revision -> check it's spam free -> save it over the top of the current revision

More anti-spam notes here on github

Any questions or problems please email okfn-help and you will get help

Other wiki gardening

 * Makes sure contacts, links and project updates are kept up to date.
 * Suggests improvements to the site - to okfn-help mailing list

Action needed from Volunteer Coordinator or Mentor

 * Give wiki gardner sysadmin on that wiki - see Special:UserRights