On Mon, 16 May 2011, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > It is (1) obvious that there's spam happening and (2) clear that it's > significantly preventing people from contributing.
The problem is (1) spammers creating accounts and (2) spammers trashing the wiki from within those accounts. If the spam were all coming from anonymous accounts, the solution would be easy: no anonymous edits and/or captchas. Two questions: (1) How does Wikipedia prevent the same thing? (Spam coming from accounts that were created by bots, etc.) (2) Can we borrow anything lightweight from (for instance) Fedora's wiki maintenance policies? There has to be a way to minimize/eliminate spam that doesn't pose a giant burden on wiki administrators, right? --Max _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
