On 25/01/2006, at 17:52, Mark Newton wrote:
Peter Stephenson wrote:Hi Jason, I am surprised that you allow just anyone to edit your pages. I would have expected a log in of some sort so that you can keep track of whois saying what and being able to stop nuisance/malicious edits.<shrug> In practice, in a system where anyone can register for a username and password that buys very little benefit. If you ban someone they just register a new user-id and continue doing whatever it was that you banned them for.
Not really. You have them authenticate via an email. Yes that too can be created - but with much more difficulty, and usually therefore not worth while. More importantly the email authenticated versions (you send a unique URL back to the users email and they click on it to activate their account) prevents most bots/scripts from doing it.
It should be noted that WikiPedia is thinking of tightening security along these lines already.
Scott
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