Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-28 Thread Vincent Stemen
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 07:10:58PM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Sd?vtaker wrote: Maybe we should consider a wiki migration, if the one we using doesnt have a lot of basic features that almost every other has. Which basic features are missing? Im not a big experienced wiki

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-28 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Tue, January 29, 2008 12:09 am, Vincent Stemen wrote: Also, have you guys looked at *Twiki* http://twiki.org/ ? We are considering using it for our own sites as the main CMS. It is a structured wiki that can be used as a general Content Management System as well. It is written in Perl

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-27 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hi, * Dario 'Capn Sonic' Banno wrote: Hey there, right some minutes ago, Dragonfly Handbook main page was completely replaced with some spam, so I reverted it to the previous version. See http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/DragonFlyBSD_Handbook?action=diff You can see daily spams

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-27 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: http://moinmo.in/TextCha Where a text question is asked that only a human could easily understand. It doesn't yet appear to be a feature we can apply to only anonymous users, if at all. Seems as if they implemented it in their recently released 1.6 version. I

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-27 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sun, January 27, 2008 4:05 am, Matthias Schmidt wrote: I already talked with Justin about that. Making the wiki read-only for unregistered users is IMO a must-have today. The amount of spam hitting the wiki day by day is too high. Deleting spam takes more time that updating the real

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-27 Thread Matthias Schmidt
* Matthias Schmidt wrote: He Justin, * Justin C. Sherrill wrote: The wiki is now set to only allow registered users to edit. Of course, there already was a spam page added last night by a registered user. It would appear that a captcha on registration is the logical next step.

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-27 Thread Sdävtaker
Matthias Schmidt escribió: * Matthias Schmidt wrote: He Justin, * Justin C. Sherrill wrote: The wiki is now set to only allow registered users to edit. Of course, there already was a spam page added last night by a registered user. It would appear that a captcha on registration is

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-27 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Sdävtaker wrote: Maybe we should consider a wiki migration, if the one we using doesnt have a lot of basic features that almost every other has. Which basic features are missing? Im not a big experienced wiki user, but heard a lot of good comments about mediawiki. We've been there, the

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-27 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sun, January 27, 2008 11:23 am, Matthias Schmidt wrote: To second that, we have already some registered users adding spam to the wiki (see Recent Changes). We need to delete these accounts as well. There's about 210 users listed in there, many of those should go. I'll work on that, though

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-27 Thread Gergo Szakal
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:10:58 +0100 Simon 'corecode' Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've been there, the spam was as bad, IIRC. Plus it needs php and mysql I think, so rather a step backwards. I know you'd want Instiki. :-P But please, no mediawiki! It's slow and sucks bigtime. -- Gergo

Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Dario 'Capn Sonic' Banno
Hey there, right some minutes ago, Dragonfly Handbook main page was completely replaced with some spam, so I reverted it to the previous version. See http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/DragonFlyBSD_Handbook?action=diff You can see daily spams from RecentChanges page too. Well, a wiki is

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
I second a motion! Tero Mäntyvaara Dario 'Capn Sonic' Banno wrote: Hey there, right some minutes ago, Dragonfly Handbook main page was completely replaced with some spam, so I reverted it to the previous version. See http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/DragonFlyBSD_Handbook?action=diff

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Dario 'Capn Sonic' Banno wrote: Well, a wiki is a great thing, but I think restricting page editing to registered users only is really needed. What do you think about it? I think we should add a captcha for unregistered users and require a captcha for registering. cheers simon -- Serve

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Require a second password for registering. Those interested can ask on one of our lists or one of the wiki admins directly. Jeremy C. Reed

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Sdävtaker
I think the captcha for unregistered users is a good idea. I started editing the wiki as unregistered. Now, Im registered, but it is good to be able edit a couple of things without the need of been registered user, it encourages the occasional user to add/change few details of what hi is

Re: Wiki Spam again

2008-01-26 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sat, January 26, 2008 6:07 pm, Dario 'Capn Sonic' Banno wrote: Hey there, right some minutes ago, Dragonfly Handbook main page was completely replaced with some spam, so I reverted it to the previous version. See http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/DragonFlyBSD_Handbook?action=diff You