At 12:32 30/05/2007, Noel O'Boyle wrote:
The other point you raised was regarding the wiki. This will soon be moving to SF, and I think that we will be implementing better spam filtering (thanks go to Martin Walker for continually reverting all that spam). I don't think we should allow anonymous edits on a wiki that acts as a website for the blue obelisk; others may disagree. I recently rearranged information on the wiki, and I'd appreciate any more specific feedback you could give me regarding the layout.
I tend to agree about anonymity - agreed this works in many cases for WP - but WP has many more people who help to create models of democracy and are vigilant against spam. We currently have fewer resources. SPAM has destroyed many wikis - including the CML one - and the only answers are constant reverting or some barrier to publishing - or maybe both (since spam seems to occur even on "protected" wikis
I know it isn't the same metric but my blog has received 50,000 spams. Without the AKISMET filter I would have to have closed it down. I don't think the same exists for wikis.
So I am fairly hardline on this. If someone changes the atomic weight of something on the wiki it is valuable to know who they are.
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