I vaguely recall turning on auth to edit pages (sign-up was free-for-all) Seemed to stop spam on most of the pages?
J On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Andrew Grimm <[email protected]> wrote: > You wouldn't believe it, but the BioRuby folk were complaining today > that their wiki was being spammed! > > They discussed only allowing authorized people to edit the wiki. That > won't work for RORO, as you'd want new people to register for > hacknight within 5 seconds of it being announced. > > You may want to semi-protect all the non-hack-night pages, though. > > While googling for semi-protection, I came across > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam > > Andrew > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Tim McEwan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yeah mate, I appreciate where you're coming from - I just didn't wanna come >> in and step on anyone's toes. >> I'll have a look into it when I'm finished post-processing the rorosyd talks >> from Tuesday. >> -- >> Tim McEwan >> Sent with Sparrow >> >> On Thursday, 10 February 2011 at 08:07, Lachie wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Tim McEwan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just wondering if perhaps there's a rails-based wiki out there, with say, >> omni[auth | social]. >> >> Why? http://wiki.rubyonrails.com.au/index.php/Talk:Main_Page >> Even the main page has a "buy papers" spam link. >> A rails-based one would be less likely to be spammed, right? Plus, it'd be >> nice... >> >> >> As someone once said, please do investigate. >> >> Seriously, the only person who will make this better is the person who >> makes it better. >> >> We'll work with you to get logos etc if you need them and then point >> the DNS in the right place once you've got something going. >> >> Right now its pretty much only roro sydney that uses it, but yea it'd >> be nice to have something with wider appeal and less spam. >> >> :lachie >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
