This runs on MediaWiki, right? How about adding a CAPTCHA for account registrations?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit And, more generally: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam Cheers, Thomas On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 18:46, Gwern Branwen<[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Philippa Cowderoy wrote: >> I'm hearing reports of people having difficulty obtaining accounts on >> the Haskell wiki, without which it is impossible to make edits. >> Currently, account creation is disabled as an anti-spam measure, and the >> idea is for people to mail the admin and request an account. If this is >> to work, accounts need to be granted reasonably quickly - so far, I'm >> aware of a case where after 4 days there has been no response. >> >> This is particularly problematic for Anglohaskell, as signups and the >> like are via the wiki page - as a temporary workaround, I'll (and anyone >> else willing to lend a hand who already has an account) have to make >> edits on others' behalf, which is a serious inconvenience for both >> myself and attendees, as well as something of a barrier to entry. >> >> What's going on, and how can we speed things up? > > Presumably Ashley is busy. > > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/?title=Special%3AListusers&group=sysop > > There are only 3 bureaucrats/admins; one is a dummy account, one is > Ashley, and one is John Peterson (who hasn't edited for a year). > > One solution would be to have Ashley re-enable user registrations. > This has been suggested before, but no one knows how bad the spam > would be. Another solution would be to sysop a few users to > admin/bureaucrat, so that even if a few are inactive or away, the rest > can handle requests. > > If I might suggest some users we might give the bit to: myself, dons, > Magnus Therning, Neil Mitchell, and byorgey. All have been editing the > wiki for some time, some have administrator experience on Wikipedia, > and all have commit bits for various Haskell repos (and so presumably > can be trusted). (Of course, this list isn't intended to be > exhaustive; they're just who comes to mind looking over Recent > Changes.) > > - -- > gwern > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREKAAYFAkoyhm8ACgkQvpDo5Pfl1oLTzACfff/rM02Fy/b/VbCwIqgaWO/B > 39QAnAkZGKyOTg2zVpDw7NcwNkaED7Ln > =KXdO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
