-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm not that active in the Dirvish community, but my vote is for MediaWiki, since that has a larger developer and support network.
Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Administrivia for the web site: > > About a week back, the wiki was hit by quite a few vandalism attacks, > from two different sets of code. I locked it down write-only while I > considered options, for dirvish and the other sites I maintain. > > I offer the group a choice of two options: > > 1) Keep the current Perl-based Kwiki software, add a "captcha" for > attempted writes. Captcha is the little graphics box that contains some > distorted letters, which a normal-vision human can read but most bots > cannot. This is less work, but troublesome for visually impaired people. > > 2) Change to MediaWiki. This is more work - I will probably have to > write a script to reformat the markup pages. I will also have to > enable modphp on my server. But MediaWiki is well supported, and many > people know how to use it. MediaWiki comes with many tools for login > and authentication. Unlike Kwiki, I expect it to last a long time. > > Both options, sadly, add work and reduce our privacy. But until > someone finds the vandals and stops them from attacking wikis, we are > forced to defend the pages against bots; either passwords or captchas > or other annoyances. Please email me directly with your opinions. > > Note there are plenty of other wiki options; most involve a language > change. If I am making changes, I will change to a well known option, > and MediaWiki is the best known. Hence the two options, please don't > argue for a third. > > Keith > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBReximZ76rTZSI4F7AQIWGQf+Pk0WKRLOdLKydyjXumtJWiHBfkb/M0P4 K5Nvf5fOIhWGMTBMw6gc0/E+VlD5FC1zFVixy9z3ivMZBcSQtjbMTeyJKPaAglr3 25vstl5h45ik4MD1sUIQgKGU8Pgv99kziVfNOiHJuW5F3wupsWsTCMq8BncbTMFz RkI+MRw/vM/aj6Sm8jc5vNSa/3er4wuSjQj31CcEB1qJvheWN2M2XXUQr3fqB5IF AHwxkDuY7vdMHNPTg1YtQSt4TKRv/RZwXZBjoHdAzFL0fL21fC2lXGYuLK0pB24B fwzTdDkP5FTbU/t32KQbS8hiPXjEYbp1IGD2rRxIGOhjFANER4EScA== =Wfs/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
