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 >
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