Thanks for looking into it Noah. I don't have a problem with locking it down as you suggest. Maybe we can seed the pre-approved list with the list of users who have made non-spam edits already?
Adam On Oct 20, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > Hey, > > On advice from Gavin McDonald, I'd like to suggest that we lock down the > wiki to a list of pre-approved users. To get approved to make edits, you > would submit a request to one of the mailing lists or to one of the wiki > admins or committers. That's it. It should remove the need to protect pages > like the "in the wild" stuff and the people on the couch. Other projects > have implemented this and they get absolutely no spam as a result. > Infrastructure suggested we move to it, and I wanna see what people think > about it. > > More info here: > > http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm > > > Look for the section: > > per wiki access control - tighten your wiki just a little, benefit just a > lot > > > Thanks, > > N
