On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:29:23PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > This is not always true. I run a public wiki that has not seen any spam in > about 2 years (balloonboard.org), and I haven't noted spamming on any of > other public wikis I use. But I imagine it is a growing problem. > > I'd prefer to keep the wiki open to start with, and only close it if we have > to. I suppose a simple email registration scheme would not be too much of a > problem.
Better be prepared ... I quote from the debaian-project mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/01/msg00133.html (and related thread) HTH, Peter +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that Debian has chosen to provide space (e.g., [0]) where a > number of fine Chinese companies can post links to their websites. > The RecentChanges page[1] shows that one IP address has modified scores of > pages in the past 24 hours. Is this really something that Debian > should be doing? > > [0]http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?KwikiTodo > [1]http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?RecentChanges WikiSpam is a known problem [0, 1] and there have been various discussions on how to deal with it. You might want to participate by helping to remove the spam from the wiki :-) Greetings, Jorgen [0] http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiSpam [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/cw/WikiSpam
