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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: GNU Arch wiki being moved
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Michael Olson |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: GNU Arch wiki being moved |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:10:15 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 19:21 -0400, Michael Olson wrote:
>> "Andy Tai" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Thanks for your concern. I did not examine the data in the early
>> > days but recent contributions mostly came from explicitly logged in
>> > user accounts. However, what you say is valid and I may remove the
>> > restriction for a while to see how it goes. Recently the spam on
>> > the wiki has been somewhat annoying.
>>
>> What I do with the wiki that I maintain is to make the FrontPage only
>> writable to logged-in users, but make most (if not all) other pages
>> writable by everyone. This keeps spam out of the most embarrassing
>> and noticeable place, but permits easy editing of information pages.
>
> We used to see scripts hit several pages adding hundreds of links before
> it was made authenticated-user-only. This rarely affected the frontpage
> anyway at that point.
It isn't terribly hard to revert pages every once in a while
(basically just a one-click operation if you go to the Page History),
compared with the cost of losing contributions from annoyed potential
wiki contributors. Also, if you're using a newer version of Moin, I
believe there's protection against spamming of many pages at once.
--
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch wiki being moved, Mikhael Goikhman, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch wiki being moved, Andy Tai, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch wiki being moved, Andy Tai, 2006/06/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch wiki being moved, Mikhael Goikhman, 2006/06/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch wiki being moved, Andy Tai, 2006/06/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch wiki being moved, Thomas Lord, 2006/06/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch wiki being moved, David Allouche, 2006/06/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch wiki being moved, Thomas Lord, 2006/06/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] GNU Arch wiki being moved, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2006/06/19