I fully agree to introduce this extension. I know this flow of new users
and pages causes a great waste of time for wiki admins.
Hèctor
2013/6/6 Francis Tyers <[email protected]>
> Hello all,
>
> I'd like to get some feedback on introducing a system of requesting
> accounts on the Apertium Wiki. At the moment, in order to get an account
> and edit pages, a user must:
>
> * fill out the registration form
> * write a Captcha
> * respond to an automated email.
>
> Even with the Captcha and automated email, we still get around 5-10 spam
> pages a day, and 10-20 spam accounts. Aside from having to delete these
> pages and block the users, this also fills up the RecentChanges.
>
> There is an extension[1] for MediaWiki which requires every account to
> be approved before being created. This is against the principles of
> Wiki, but would reduce work for the Wiki admins who are deleting the
> pages (at the moment mostly me, Unhammer and Bernard).
>
> What do people think ?
>
> Fran
>
> 1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount
>
>
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