> The two solutions proposed are as follows:
> 
> 1.) Gated Editor community:  The solution put in place yesterday now  
> requires all new users to request to be added to a special group to  
> actually edit a page. Adding some to this group requires someone in  
> the group to hand the users request to be added (as you have just  
> recently seen a request on the dspace-tech).
> 
> 2.) Leave the community editing open to registered users, who will  
> have rights to edit certain pages. Install a spam blacklist extension  
> that exists for media wiki that stops know spammers from being  
> allowed to access the wiki. (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ 
> SpamBlacklist_extension)

I vote for option 2. I must say, I wasn't pleased to find myself unable
to edit pages this morning. If it would help, I'm happy to assist in
cleaning up after spammers if someone wants to add me to the SysOp list.

Jim.

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