Many weeks ago, I started getting a large number of wikispam attacks against the dirvish wiki, so I made it read only. Yesterday, I got time to upgrade all my wikis to kwiki2 , which includes "typekey" authentication. Go to the site www.typekey.com and get a free account. When you log into typekey, that turns on authentication for you to edit dirvish.org, as well as lots of other typekey enabled sites.
Third party authentication reduces privacy a bit, but it makes the wiki a lot easier to manage, and if Typekey sees a suspicious pattern of widely scattered authentications, they have detected a wikispam robot and can turn off its authentications. This provides protection for many wikis at once. On the balance, a good deal. So, sign up, try it out, and add some content to the dirvish site! Keith (PS: I looked at Mediawiki as an alternative; too much complication, setting up both mysql and php and locking them down. I am still seriously considering TWiki, which is evolving rapidly and has many good features, but I am waiting for a simpler but authenticated skin. Kwiki is getting full time support now, so I expect it to improve fast) -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
