On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>

Were you able to try it out, and see if it would make a difference?

Lucas

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