Hi, all, I've long been contemplating adding commenting ability to my wiki pages (or some of them) and I've been debating different ways of doing this. I've read through the various cook book recipes and weighed different methods and options.
I like the idea of -Talk pages as implemented in pmwiki.org to hold discussions. It seems like a pretty straight-forward way of providing that sort of mechanism if you want to hold discussions about the contents of the base page. However, it really does seem quite different than getting casual, drop-by comments from a reader who merely wants to ask a question or make a note of something on the page itself. So I think I'm going with a hybrid solution of -Talk pages for discussion about the page, it's accuracy or it's future, and a comment box type function for each page as well. For the drive-by comments, it seems like the recommend method is to include a comments page, with an editing form on it, rather than embed the comments and form directly on the page itself. Is this still true? The question of spam blocking always hits me in this arena. I'm no stranger to finding captcha code places, however, I really do not like most of it; to make things the most difficult for the bots seems to also make things overly difficult for the user. I wonder if anyone else has looked at alternatives to using a captcha. I was recently pointed to http://textcaptcha.com/really which gives several reasons why you should not use a captcha at all unless you are absolutely sure it is necessary. The techniques they show seem really quite doable, but I'm not sure how much could be done via recipes alone (perhaps all of it?). I'd at least like to start working on a recipe that can implement some of the techniques they describe (perhaps a few recipes might be necessary, not sure) with an eye towards integrating them into the various ways pmwiki uses forms. At any rate, I'd like to know if others have attempted to do something similar both with discussions and comments, and with spam prevention that does not use captcha or require logins. Thanks! _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
