On 17-Dec-07, at 1:47 AM, Sandip Bhattacharya 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.

i had huge problems in my wikis - especially hidden spam. Hundreds of  
hits a day. Then I linked in akismet, and all my problems went away.  
djangoproject.com also uses akismet - and very little spam there too.


-- 
regards

Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
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http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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