[Cialug] wiki spammed

Academician Kula kula at tproa.net
Sun Aug 7 20:00:44 CDT 2005


On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 05:22:15PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> The wiki has been spammed.
> Maybe we need to start some sort of accounts for editing the wiki?
> 
> What does our wiki expert think?
> 
> 

Can't claim to be the wiki expert, but in my experience if you
make accounts required to edit the wiki but allow anyone to
create accounts, you won't totally get rid of wiki spam. I've 
got a couple of wikis that kept getting spam even after 
requiring account. 

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