Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Wiki

On Sunday 25 July 2010 17:06:48 Tim wrote:
> On Sunday 25 July 2010 15:25:44 Sean Gibbins wrote:
> > 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!
> >
> > Option 4: is there anything that can be done to reduce the amount of
> > spam using/tweaking moinmoin's anti-spam features?
> >
> > Failing that, option 2 sounds like a goer. If it's worth posting, it's
> > worth registering.
> >
> > Sean
>
> I'm with Sean either lock down what we have or failing that make it
> members\register only

I'm in favour of members/register only. Surrey LUG has a method that works
from the Wiki itself, and does not require an email. You have to answer a
couple of questions in a way which demonstrates that you are human. It's no
bid deal and apparently keeps spam-bots out.

It would be a shame to lock it down. It rather defeats the purpose of a Wiki.

My 2p
Lisi