It has been mentioned before but is there a way to get rid of the spam
on the Wiki?
I like to check once a week what has been changed but right now that
means almost everything has changed which makes this a futile exercise.
I have a suggestion, if that is possible, to use a kind of acknowledge
email when someone wants to edit the Wiki, or else just go goto approved
editors. I know that defeats the purpose of a Wiki but right now it is a
pain in the butt. You can’t have a couple of people correcting all the
damage everyday again!
Any thoughts?
Joop
PS:
Sorry if this is not the right place but I feel that on this list (all)
the relevent people will read it
Joop van de Wege JoopvandeWege@mococo.nl
It has been mentioned before but is there a way to get rid of the spam
on the Wiki?
Don’t know how it’ll fly, but:
Semi-public login, posted to the mailing lists regularly?
Word-verification/captcha?
I take care of a few wiki sites and this problem was relatively solved
by requiring login to edit. In the register process the user writes a
comment about why she/he wants to register and a confirm mail is sent to
the supplied address. The registration is complete when this mail is
replyed or the code sent is inputed in a particular web form. A notice
is generated and sent to the administrator, that can remove the account
if it’s the case.
This way we are fairly safe from robots, and incidents with bad users
are very rare…
Btw, I use TWiki (http://twiki.org/), a very robust, flexible and
extensible wiki.
It has been mentioned before but is there a way to get rid of the spam
on the Wiki?
Don’t know how it’ll fly, but:
Semi-public login, posted to the mailing lists regularly?
Our spammers use google.
I think we’ll need to go to a full-email-verified login. Wifty is
almost, but not quite ready for that. The “other” option is Mediawiki,
but my personal distaste for PHP makes that a bit of a non-starter.
I think we’ll need to go to a full-email-verified login. Wifty is
almost, but not quite ready for that. The “other” option is Mediawiki,
but my personal distaste for PHP makes that a bit of a non-starter.
It has been mentioned before but is there a way to get rid of the spam
on the Wiki?
Don’t know how it’ll fly, but:
Semi-public login, posted to the mailing lists regularly?
Our spammers use google.
I think we’ll need to go to a full-email-verified login. Wifty is
almost, but not quite ready for that. The “other” option is Mediawiki,
but my personal distaste for PHP makes that a bit of a non-starter.
Word-verification/captcha?
Tried it. The spammers are humans.
Socialtext will be open sourcing their wiki at Oscon…
