On 25/07/10 11:52, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: > Hi, > > Since the Wiki re-fresh it has been plagued with SPAM, today I've checked and > nearly a dozen pages have been spammed this weekend. All I seem to do with > the > site is remove spam from it. > > Our wiki is an open site that allows any one to edit them in the hope that > people contribute to the site. The problem is that very few people contribute > to the site but a lot of sad spammers do. > > There are three options: > > 1) Leave as is, and hope I and a few others still have the will to keep the > viagra adds to a minimum. > > 2) Force everyone who wishes to contribute to the wiki to register via a > human. This will make it harder to contribute but should keep the spam to > zero. > > 3) Turn the web site back into a static web site, which will make it very > much > harder to others to contribute, but again will keep the spam to zero. > > > I think we all like the idea that anyone can contribute to the site and add > anything (within reason) to the site. However we also need to accept that > very > few people have added anything in the past months and all I and a few others > do is remove spam. > > DISCUSS! >
Assuming you have tried all the anti-spam methods (http://moinmo.in/AntiSpamFeatures) then I would make it a closed wiki and users need to register via email before being given an account. John. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Discover Linux - Open Source Solutions to Business and Schools http://discoverlinux.co.uk -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
