On Dec 16, 2007 10:31 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 16-Dec-07, at 7:47 AM, Raj Shekhar wrote:
>
> >> why not make it truly open - allowing edits without a login? And it
> >> looks like you are getting an extra copy of this reply.
> >
> > As the lolcats would say
> >
> > '
> > I'm in yur wikiz,
> > spamming it to death
>
> if you mean that one cannot keep a wiki spam free if one allows non-
> logged-in users to post, explain these:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org         <----- no login needed to edit

I guess either the wiki has to be not so popular to be of interest to
spammers or there have to be people watching over it.  For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam

Though there's nothing wrong in requiring contributors to register (as
long as their email addresses are kept private), IMHO.

-- 
Manish

> http://code.djangoproject.com       <----- no login needed to edit
> http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/       <----- no login needed to edit
> http://registration.fossconf.in/code/       <----- no login needed to
> edit

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