El dj 06 de 06 de 2013 a les 15:38 +0200, en/na Kevin Brubeck Unhammer va escriure: > Francis Tyers <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'd like to get some feedback on introducing a system of requesting > > accounts on the Apertium Wiki. At the moment, in order to get an account > > and edit pages, a user must: > > > > * fill out the registration form > > * write a Captcha > > * respond to an automated email. > > > > Even with the Captcha and automated email, we still get around 5-10 spam > > pages a day, and 10-20 spam accounts. Aside from having to delete these > > pages and block the users, this also fills up the RecentChanges. > > > > There is an extension[1] for MediaWiki which requires every account to > > be approved before being created. This is against the principles of > > Wiki, but would reduce work for the Wiki admins who are deleting the > > pages (at the moment mostly me, Unhammer and Bernard). > > > > What do people think ? > > +1, if it's possible to give several people the responsibility of > approving so that registrations happen quickly even if people go off the > grid (I've been waiting for confirmation for two years on the > thinkpadwiki :-/).
Yeah, it can be done by any Wiki "bureaucrat" (think Hermes) so I'll just make anyone who asks who isn't named something like "HoratioDunlop3" a bureaucrat. Fran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
