Matijs Erisson: > Malcolm Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > ... And avoid > > > > getting screwed up by malicious folk? > > > > > > ... but I believe there are a number of people who regularly > > > review all the "Recent Changes" and undertake to 'undo' any > > > malicious/inaccurate modifications. > > > > I suspect this would end up adding /more/ work to central maintainers, > > rather than less. > > Recently the Haskell Wiki went from anonymous edits to logged-in edits because > of the tremendous amount of wikispam, so I agree with this. > On the good side, it's easy to create an account.
I don't think restricting editing to registered users is a significant turn off if registration is simple. > On the bad side, at some point spambots will notice this too. We can use the same techniques that web sites like slashdot.org use to prevent bots from registering accounts. Manuel _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
