Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 19:21 -0400, Michael Olson wrote: >> "Andy Tai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Thanks for your concern. I did not examine the data in the early >> > days but recent contributions mostly came from explicitly logged in >> > user accounts. However, what you say is valid and I may remove the >> > restriction for a while to see how it goes. Recently the spam on >> > the wiki has been somewhat annoying. >> >> What I do with the wiki that I maintain is to make the FrontPage only >> writable to logged-in users, but make most (if not all) other pages >> writable by everyone. This keeps spam out of the most embarrassing >> and noticeable place, but permits easy editing of information pages. > > We used to see scripts hit several pages adding hundreds of links before > it was made authenticated-user-only. This rarely affected the frontpage > anyway at that point.
It isn't terribly hard to revert pages every once in a while (basically just a one-click operation if you go to the Page History), compared with the cost of losing contributions from annoyed potential wiki contributors. Also, if you're using a newer version of Moin, I believe there's protection against spamming of many pages at once. -- Michael Olson -- FSF Associate Member #652 -- http://www.mwolson.org/ Interests: Emacs Lisp, text markup, protocols -- Jabber: mwolson_at_hcoop.net /` |\ | | | IRC: mwolson on freenode.net: #hcoop, #muse, #PurdueLUG |_] | \| |_| Project involvement: Emacs, Muse, Planner, ERC, EMMS
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