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[Python-Dev] What to do about the Wiki?

[Python-Dev] What to do about the Wiki?Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:47:46 -0400
I don't know what to do about the Moinmoin Wiki on python.org.

Lots of useful information was recently moved to the Wiki, like the
editors list and Andrew Kuchling's bookstore.

But the Wiki brought the website down twice this weekend, by growing
without bounds.  To prevent this from happening again, we've disabled
the Wiki, but that's not a solution.

Juergen Hermann, Moinmoin's author, said he fixed a few things, but
also said that Moinmoin is essentially vulnerable to "recursive wget"
(e.g. someone trying to suck up the entire Wiki by following links).
Apparently this is what brought the site down this weekend -- if I
understand correctly, an in-memory log was growing too fast.  There
are a lot of links in the Wiki, e.g. for each Wiki page there's the
page itself, the edit form, the history, various other actions, etc.

I believe that Juergen has fixed the log-growing problem.  Should we
enable the Wiki again and hope for the best?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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