We could try making a couple more people admins and see if we can keep up with the spam. Otherwise, I am ok with requiring logins to edit.
.hc On Dec 23, 2007, at 10:53 PM, marius schebella wrote: > I think we had a discussion in the beginning and we agreed to make > the wiki only writeable for registered users as soon as we have to > deal with spam. > so... I suggest to do that now. > marius. > > Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> It's quite easy to delete spam on pdpedia, we just need people >> willing to do it. I think it would be good to have a lot of >> admins to make that easier. So far, I've just been giving admin >> privileges to anyone who asks to get things going. I suppose we >> should think of a process. >> How about a consensus of the current admins (like the consensus >> of developers for CVS)? >> .hc >> On Dec 23, 2007, at 7:14 AM, Derek Holzer wrote: >>> My experience is that every Captcha can be defeated somehow. >>> It's only a >>> matter of time: >>> >>> http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/ >>> >>> At FLOSS Manuals, we have it so that no edit can "go live" >>> without the >>> approval of the moderator: >>> >>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData >>> >>> Human review seems like the only solution to this never-ending >>> problem. >>> >>> d. >>> >>> Chris wrote: >>>> Hello list, >>>> >>>> There are several cases of vandalism at wiki.puredata.info, who >>>> takes >>>> care about that? They are all at discussion pages. >>>> Maybe there should be some kind of Captcha to prevent Bots from >>>> Spamming? >>>> >>>> >>>> Articles: >>>> http://wiki.puredata.info/en/Talk:message >>>> http://wiki.puredata.info/en/comment >>>> http://wiki.puredata.info/en/Talk:about >>>> >>>> Nearly every IP-edit in pdpedia. I would delete them, but I have no >>>> admin-account. >>>> >>>> >>>> --~~~~ >>>> Chris >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> [email protected] mailing list >>>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http:// >>>> lists.puredata.info/ listinfo/pd-list >>>> >>> -- >>> derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http:// >>> blog.myspace.com/ macumbista >>> ---Oblique Strategy # 174: >>> "Water" >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ >>> listinfo/pd-list >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- ---- >> Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. - the hacker ethic >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ >> listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. - the hacker ethic _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
