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On 24/07/13 09:49, Anne Wilson wrote:
> We are experiencing a severe spam attack on the wikis. As a temporary
> measure all new registration has been blocked, while we work out the
> best way of dealing with this.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
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On Wednesday 24 of July 2013 12:42:53 Anne Wilson wrote:
> One proposal is that we should require contributors to supply a valid
> email address when registering. We acknowledge that some people don't
> like to register email addresses where they may be found by others,
> but that is not an issue o
Hi all,
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 of July 2013 12:42:53 Anne Wilson wrote:
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>> Now the questions:
>>
>> What would be your concerns if we implemented this?
>>
>> Would this stop you from registering as a contributor?
>>
>> Please add any other re
Requiring an email is a very minimal request, at least in my opinion.
Although I dislike reCAPTCHAs, if it's going only going to be a one
time thing and keeps spam off the wikis, I'm all for it. A good simple
question is "What is 'maps' spelled backwards?", then you select from
three different word
On 24.07.2013 14:04, Luigi Toscano wrote:
- why don't require identity registration? I understand that the idea
is to
lower the threshold for new contributors, but identity is used also for
other
services (and it will be used more and more), and on the other side the
registration shows a bit of
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On 24/07/13 13:04, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 of July 2013 12:42:53 Anne Wilson wrote:
>> One proposal is that we should require contributors to supply a
>> valid email address when registering. We acknowledge that some
>> people don't li
