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Ashley Yakeley wrote:
There has been a lot of spam on HaskellWiki. Since anonymous edits have
been switched off, a spammer tactic has been to create hundreds of
accounts to evade individual account blocks.
To combat this, I have
1. deleted all user accounts that have made no edits;
2. switched off account creation;
3. blocked at least some of the remaining spam accounts.
This is obviously not ideal, as there is now no way for new users to
edit the wiki. I will investigate appropriate ways to allow account
creation.
--
Ashley Yakeley
Darn,
As someone who only maintained a Wiki account to customize the Look and feel
of the wiki, I did wonder where my account had gone.
It would be nice if there was a comment to this effect on the Login /
<strike>Registration</strike> page of the Wiki.
Also another possible solution (if it's possible) would be to allow general
creation of read-only accounts and then have a manual / moderated process
for upgrading accounts to read-write.
TTFN, Struan
Probably not. I've never heard of MediaWiki supporting read-only
accounts (without abusing methods like blocking, obviously).
I think you can enable or disable permissions such as "edit" for groups
of users in MediaWiki. You should be able to use groups to give the
appropriate permissions:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/219135/how-do-i-create-my-own-custom-group-in-mediawiki
Amanda
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