On 20.03.2013 15:30, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Mar 20, 2013, at 10:08 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> If we can't get things under control, we will have to start >> using such a group and disable public editing of pages :-( > > FWIW, we've long had this policy on the Mailman wiki. It was the only > successful way to control spam. Sign up is open (and yes, we occasionally > have to delete profile spam), but folks have to email the mailman-cabal to > request write/edit access. We don't get a lot of such requests, so the > process is quite manageable, and we get almost zero spam now.
Did this have an effect on the number of editors of the wiki ? The usual complaint when doing this is that you prevent quick edits (e.g. typo corrections) by raising the bar in this way. After the recent updates to the textchas, the profile spam has apparently stopped: http://wiki.python.org/jython/RecentChanges So perhaps making the textchas a little more complicated and also starting a process to accept people to the trusted editor group would solve the problem. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Mar 22 2013) >>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2013-03-13: Released eGenix pyOpenSSL 0.13 ... http://egenix.com/go39 ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list pydotorg-www@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www