Hi Mark On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 08:23 -0400, Mark Stosberg wrote: > On 05/14/2011 02:20 AM, Joshua Miller wrote: > > Is there a reason the home page can be modified by anyone sans-registration > > and sans-approval? > > No good reason. Does anyone want to be the "wiki admin" and see about > making that change with the current software, or moving us to a > better/newer wiki platform?
I'd like to know how exactly we are to judge a request from someone to get access to updating the site. Or is it the case the edits would take place on a non-public version, which is reviewed by an editor? > > I noticed some spam links were added, and removed them. It's easy enough to > > remove, but seems like some sort of protection wouldn't hurt (email address > > registration with captcha, or require manual approval of changes or of > > users?). It probably doesn't matter a whole lot, since it has low traffic > > and a small dedicated group. Just felt a bit weird that it was so easy to > > modify. > > This important. Eventually people will get worn down by fighting spam > and give up. We should do better. I think our site has not been targeted > so much because we use an uncommon wiki system. I hadn't thought of that angle. -- Ron Savage http://savage.net.au/ Ph: 0421 920 622 ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
