On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Christopher Arndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Lukasz Szybalski schrieb:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Christopher Arndt <chris.arndt-S0/[EMAIL 
> > PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > On 'my' wiki a user is required to login. This caused  spam to go from
>  > 50 pages/spam edits to 0 a year ago.
>
>  The idea was to let every contribute to the documentation as easily as
>  possible. Maybe that was a bit naive ;-) We get spammers once in a while
>  that completely overwrite unprotected pages, but not to often. Anyway,
>  it's easy to revert the page and then write-protect it if necessary. A
>  wiki needs some maintenance, if you're not prepared to do this, then a
>  wiki isnsn't the right thing, IMHO.
>
>
>  > Now the logged in spam user is
>  > spamming about 5 new pages per week.
>
>  We had those a few (<20) times. I disabled their user accounts and so
>  far it hasn't gotten out of control.
>
>
>  > I modified the pagecomment macro
>  > so that a user is required to login and was wondering if it would work
>  > for turbogears wiki?
>
>  Send code plz ;-)

http://moinmo.in/MacroMarket/PageComment2

PageComment2-0.981-only_logged_in_user.py

I didn't do nothing fancy. I just commented out the code that filled
in the anonymous ip/password. Without these 2 items it doesn't look
like you can post a comment unless you're logged in.

Which leaves you with spammers that have user names already.

Lucas

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