On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Mike Dillon
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Being that there is only one active admin on the Haskell.org wiki (User:Ashley Y), I believe the fact that this page is editable by any user is a policy decision to allow the community to contribute. The page could be protected, but then only two administrators could edit it (assuming John Peterson decided to become active again after two years of not working on the wiki):
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=Special%3AListusers&group=sysop
As for whether or not moving this particular wiki to a Haskell-based solution would be a good idea, I don't see it being a win. I don't know of any Haskell-based wikis that support MediaWiki syntax, so the effort would involve converting all the existing content to some other format. Being that MediaWiki's syntax is the most widespread wiki syntax at the moment, I don't see how that would do anything but make it harder for people to contribute.
One more thing. On a wiki with active administrators, this user would have been blocked. That hasn't happened. The last block was in August 2009:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=Special%3ALog&type=block
If there is not someone regularly watching the wiki at all times, it would probably be prudent to protect some of the higher profile pages once there are more admins able to edit them.
-md
Ashley has made me admin; I've spent the last 1.5 hours deleting all the vandalism and indef blocking the accounts. I have Recent Changes in my RSS reader, so hopefully in the future there will be no greater than 24 hours delay before vandalism is dealt with. A MW upgrade will also help (eg. currently checkuser* seems to be unavailable). * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser -- gwern