Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] Wiki

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

Tim