On Dec 17, 2007 1:47 AM, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> > if you mean that one cannot keep a wiki spam free if one allows non-
> > logged-in users to post, explain these:
>
> If you are willing to volunteer to keep an eye on every edit and keep it
> spam-free, then ofcourse we can do that(the prominent ones you mentioned
> have dedicated teams looking at this). Else, this is probably a decision
> made by the admin keeping in the mind the ratio of maintenance overheads
> vs actual number of moderators for the wiki.


Wiki had, as it has put on it's site, more than 1000 editors as of 2005 for
the articles to monitor. But do we indeed have such kind of resource
privilege. I don't think so.


> I don't know about your wiki, but I have had enough of my share of
> administrating public wikis, and I am ok with the loss of privacy that
> you are probably concerned with.


Besides, as dear friend Karunakar has already pointed; having a track of
regular contributors to the project has it's own share of benefits too.

-
Smruti
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