To expand on my previous post a bit:
I know MediaWiki can be set-up so that accounts need to be requested and
then be accepted by a trusted user before they are created, which would
help to reduce spam allot. It can also be set up to create new user
automatically when requested but not allow them to edit anything until they
get promoted which can be done by trusted users. As well as many other
combinations of permissions.
I cannot say if moin-moin can do this or not, but if it cannot (or no one
else knows how to) and there is no other reason to stay with moin-moin then
it might be worth switching, assuming the web-master is happy to do this (I
would be willing to help out with this if needed).
You can see one of my MediaWiki sites here [1] if you want to have a play
around with it (I am not really using it for anything any more so I don't
mind it getting messed up much if you want to experiment).
Its probably because I never use it, but it hasn't yet been successfully
attacked by spammers (again, that is probably due to them just not finding
it more then anything else).
I am willing to experiment with the permissions/settings of [1] if anyone
wants to test out access control.
As a side note, WordPress with the akismet plugin [2] has stopped the few
bits of spam that have trickled into my blog if you are
still interested in proceeding with that route - Though I think it would be
nice to have a WordPress site for news/updates/announcement and a wiki site
for more technical documentations. (I have even found some hints that
suggest you can auth MediaWiki users through the WordPress db).
[1]
http://wiki.james147.net/wiki/http://wiki.james147.net/wiki/Private:Services
[2] http://akismet.com/
http://akismet.com/
http://akismet.com/
On 7 November 2012 22:52, Dr A. J. Trickett adam.trick...@iredale.netwrote:
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On Wednesday 07 Nov 2012, Lisi wrote:
On Wednesday 07 November 2012 20:42:51 Chris Dennis wrote:
It seems that if I re-enable the 'new account' feature, then anyone at
all can instantly create an account and start messing with the pages,
which is what happened before when the site filled up with
pharmaceutical adverts.
Why did we change to moin-moin? I can't remember, but spam always was
something that needed fighting.
I think it was because someone was prepared to migrate the content off the
old wiki onto a new one and was prepared to do the cosmetic work, so it's
what they picked.
I'm told Moin-Moin has a half decent reputation - it's used by Debian for
example. For quite a while it was okay but there was very little activity
by anyone in the LUG, then the spam started to take it over and eventually
we had to lock it as I spent all my time cleaning it up and not doing
anything useful with it.
I think the best tool is the one the Webmaster is happiest with and while
I do love wikis, I'm not convinced enough other people do to make them work
on the Internet.
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