----- Original Message ----- > On 6/12/2011 4:43 PM, Igor Galić wrote: > > it seems the easiest way to prevent the spam on the wiki, is > > to have dedicated Admins. I know this isn't the way a wiki should > > be, but we currently have no sane way of spam prevention. > > > > > Can you elaborate on the level of inconvenience this limitation will > add? Is this one of those review-accounts-before-creation kinds of > things or review-posts-before-accepting kinds of things? Are there > other > options for review? I would be willing to volunteer time to assist if > the group collectively decides to follow this idea. > > As far as the question posed goes, it would seem to me that the ratio > of > spam to/valuable content is rather high. The unfortunate reality is > that > there are enough Bad Guys on the Internet that ruin things for > everyone > and most public forums, wikis and blogs have some form of moderation > to > combat this. As long as adding moderation doesn't make it *difficult* > to > contribute, I feel that users would understand.
For explanation, this is how it's done: http://wiki.apache.org/general/OurWikiFarm > P.S. > I administer some MediaWiki sites, but no MoinMoin powered wiki's. > What > is the preferred method of moderation? Something built-in or an > extension? Seems like it: http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinQuestions/Administration#Access_Control > -- > -- > Daniel Ruggeri > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docs-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docs-h...@httpd.apache.org i -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org URL: http://brainsware.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docs-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: docs-h...@httpd.apache.org
