Arduino Playground Edit Access

I don't know, I just moderate here. Try a message to webmaster@arduino.cc

@janvier123 yes please send us your resumé as suggested by Nick Gammon. Any help is much appreciated.

Sent, but ill send you a PM too, in case you didn't get the email

Thanks a lot.

Dear Nick,

Sorry... I don't think the following is in your gift? But maybe you could pass it on to the right people?

Perhaps instead of a request for "Password", the site could respond with, say, "see forum discussion (this thread)"?

I've just wasted 20 minutes going round and round to find out why I can't get in.

I wonder how many other minutes have been wasted/ bad feeling against site/ messages to the wrong people/ has/ have arisen.

Regards, Tom

I sent a message to the forum administrator to this effect.

Two weeks later and it's still password protected... The whole point of wikis is that the community can edit them If the Arduino staff isn't going to do anything about the issue then open it back up for editing and let the community deal with the spam. I for one am willing to put some time in deleting spam. What we really need is rss feeds for playground pages so that I can get notifications when a page is updated and immediately check for abuse. This appears to be possible with PmWiki PmWiki | PmWiki / RSS but from what I can tell it is not enabled on the playground so it will need some minimal effort from Arduino to make it happen.

Try a message to webmaster@arduino.cc

Done

Hi everyone,

if you need the password to change the content please write at webmaster@arduino.cc. Thanks for the hint about RSS. We are also looking at a captcha solution.

Based on your suggestions I just activated RSS on the wiki.

You can call every page like this:

playground.arduino.cc/?action=rdf
playground.arduino.cc/?action=rss
playground.arduino.cc/?action=atom
playground.arduino.cc/?action=dc

To get instant updates.

Wow! Thanks for such a fast response mastrolinux. I have subscribed to the All Recent Changes feed playground.arduino.cc/Site/AllRecentChanges?action=rss and it seems to work fine.

Insure you give yourself plenty of time to get a password for the playground. It takes at least a few days. I sent an email on the 6th. It is now the 10th, and I haven't received an answer yet.

Hi SurferTim,

I am looking again at your email, cannot find it easily. Thinking about removing it this week since now we have RSS.

Thanks.

mastrolinux:
Hi SurferTim,

I am looking again at your email, cannot find it easily. Thinking about removing it this week since now we have RSS.

Thanks.

Removing what? You will have to explain what RSS has to do with me maintaining my wiki articles.
http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/WebClient
http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/WebServerST
http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/FTP
http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/Email
http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/Telnet

Do I need to send another password request email?

I think what he's saying is he's going to remove the playground edit password, because now interested users (such as pert, based on his subscribing to the recent changes RSS feed) can more easily monitor and protect against spam by following RSS feeds to the playground. Interested public will now be the spam filters, because they can remove it as it shows up in their feeds. I think that's the idea.

Check here and you'll see that Pert went in and made like 100 edits to remove Spam: Arduino Playground - AllRecentChanges

Indeed, we can remove password but I would like to have a real spam prevention and not just a spam removal (manual) because otherwise the effort will be huge.

We are open to suggestion. I asked for a captcha during signup of new users at our UX department. We do not have a ETA yet.

The other thing is probably simpler to do is to give access to user with a karma > x. Where x is a number you decide.

In that case someone please karma me. :slight_smile: In 2 years and 1000 hrs of Arduino work, and thousands of downloads of my libraries, I've received 2 karma.

mastrolinux, perhaps you can simply require a user to have an Arduino Forum user account and have karma>0 before they can edit the Playground. (I'm assuming karma starts at 0 right?). Then, allow any user to report someone for spam on the forum or playground via a spam button where they made edits. Users being accused of spam will then be deleted by admins if it is true.

....my fear would be making it too hard for people to access the playground to make additions. Even brand new beginnners with only hours of Arduino experience can make useful contributions to the Playground if they add a user page detailing their experience, for instance, to help other beginners, or by fixing formatting of poorly-formatted pages, etc, even if they don't have enough experience or knowledge yet to solve complicated problems or post libraries.