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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration
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chth |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration |
Date: |
Wed, 3 Nov 2004 04:07:03 +0100 |
> A week or so ago, someone proposed in IRC that the wiki should require
> login before edits, to reduce the amount of google-juice-link-spam
> that occurs.
>
> The debate was a little heated there, but I've since checked with
> jblack, and currently, we don't require a login to edit the pages..
>
> I think it would be a good thing if a login was required. What do you
> guys think?
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/AntiSpamGlobalSolution
Moin wikis where this is deployed seem to get no (at least not much)
spam. Further the upcoming new 1.3 version will add a lot of features to
give a better control (namely ACL's).
I may disagree that registration or ACL's are good for a wiki but
unfortunally it seems to be required to protect at least some important
pages (like legal stuff, server contact addresses, Frontpage and such).
Bots can easily be adapted to make fake registrations, this will give us
only a short advantage.
Proprosal for a wiki policy:
- deploy the AntiSpamGlobalSolution
- Anyone else (not registered) is monitored by the
BadContent/LocalBadContent from the AntiSpam solution thing.
They might:
- edit pages
- revert their own changes
- revert things on pages they created
- grant acl rights to anyone else on pages they created
- Anyone may become a wiki maintainer which gives him any other right
this should not require registration but the person should
be validated by one other maintainer (Thus only a Maintainer can add
someone else to become a Maintainer), The only requirement for that
should be that one can assure that the other one is a member of the
arch community and not someone who wants to abuse the wiki.
- People who abuse maintainership will be removed, removing someone
else for no reason is abuse!
- We need a few gentle Gods which only step in case someone does
really bad things like deleting the M;aintainer list and
additionally care for the few extra protected pages (Frontpage, Legal
stuff etc...) the later one can be delegated. (actually it would
suffice if jblack takes this part, because it is his server and he is
in charge. But he might delegate the task to 1 or 2 more persons
because he is not always watching it).
Christian
- [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration, Robert Collins, 2004/11/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/11/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration,
chth <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration, Charles Duffy, 2004/11/02
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration, Lothar Märkle, 2004/11/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration, Charles Duffy, 2004/11/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration, Robin Green, 2004/11/04
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration, tomas, 2004/11/05
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: wiki spam & user registration, Miles Bader, 2004/11/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration, Andrew Suffield, 2004/11/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration, Esben Mose Hansen, 2004/11/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration, Andrew Suffield, 2004/11/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] wiki spam & user registration, chth, 2004/11/06