On 25/07/10 11:52, Hants LUG Chairman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since the Wiki re-fresh it has been plagued with SPAM, today I've checked and
> nearly a dozen pages have been spammed this weekend. All I seem to do with the
> site is remove spam from it.
>
> Our wiki is an open site that allows any one to edit them in the hope that
> people contribute to the site. The problem is that very few people contribute
> to the site but a lot of sad spammers do.
>
> There are three options:
>
> 1) Leave as is, and hope I and a few others still have the will to keep the
> viagra adds to a minimum.
>
> 2) Force everyone who wishes to contribute to the wiki to register via a
> human. This will make it harder to contribute but should keep the spam to
> zero.
>
> 3) Turn the web site back into a static web site, which will make it very much
> harder to others to contribute, but again will keep the spam to zero.
>
>
> I think we all like the idea that anyone can contribute to the site and add
> anything (within reason) to the site. However we also need to accept that very
> few people have added anything in the past months and all I and a few others
> do is remove spam.
>
> DISCUSS!
>
Assuming you have tried all the anti-spam methods
(
http://moinmo.in/AntiSpamFeatures) then I would make it a closed wiki
and users need to register via email before being given an account.
John.
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