We could just add reCAPTCHA to the wiki and be done with it. I don't believe it's difficult to do.
Jason A. Crome / CromeDome DEVNET, Inc. - Cutting Edge Property Tax and Appraisal Solutions - http://www.devnetinc.com -- AIM: TheOneCromeDome Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cromedome Blog: http://use.perl.org/~CromeDome/journal CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~cromedome/ github: http://github.com/cromedome On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Joshua Miller <unr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ron Savage <r...@savage.net.au> wrote: > >> Hi Mark >> >> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 08:23 -0400, Mark Stosberg wrote: >> > On 05/14/2011 02:20 AM, Joshua Miller wrote: >> > > Is there a reason the home page can be modified by anyone >> sans-registration >> > > and sans-approval? >> > >> > No good reason. Does anyone want to be the "wiki admin" and see about >> > making that change with the current software, or moving us to a >> > better/newer wiki platform? >> >> I'd like to know how exactly we are to judge a request from someone to >> get access to updating the site. >> > > Have they said "HI" on this list at all? Could easily require more than > that, but if someone has never even mentioned a peep on here, they probably > shouldn't be editing the home page. > > >> Or is it the case the edits would take place on a non-public version, >> which is reviewed by an editor? >> >> > Just my 2 cents, but I don't think the site needs that much protection at > this time. If there's a log of changes, who made the change (registered > user), and that user was vetted by saying Hi to the list one or more times, > that should be enough to stop anonymous spam link insertion, and still leave > it very open (encouraging) to contributors. > > > As for a wiki admin (requested above by Mark), I'd be happy to contribute > and share that role. Who is the admin right now? > -- > Josh I. > > ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ > ## ## > ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## > ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## > ## ## > ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## > ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## > ## ## > ################################################################ > > ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################