On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Christopher Arndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Felix,
>
> sorry, that I didn't have much time for looking after the wiki lately.
> Many thanks to you for keeping an eye on this and cleaning up all the spam!
>
> Felix Schwarz schrieb:
>> as you probably noticed, spammers changed their tactics and create new
>> pages
>> instead of just adding comments. Deleting their pages takes me longer
>> than deleting
>> a comment (and I can disable the comment feature if they like a site too
>> much).
>>
>> Can we restrict new page creation so that only authenticated users may
>> create new
>> ones?
>
> I have know set the default permissions to "read" for anonymous users
> and "read,write" for known users (i.e. authenticated ones).
> Unfortunately, MoinMoin does not have a separate permission for page
> creation, i.e. this means that you know need to be logged in to edit any
> page.
>
> Also, because by default known user do not have the revert right, they
> do not seem to able to recreate pages with names that once existed but
> were deleted earlier.
>
> Let's see how this works out in practice. There might be still spam bots
> who will cretae accounts to publish their crap.
>

On my wiki that didn't help a lot. It stopped spam for a while but
then the bots were creating usernames and adding pages.
For some reason wiki.debian.org has 0 spam, but nobody there can tell
me what settings they use to block all this spam.

New version of moinmoin 1.7 with "question/answer" might help if that
is an option in a future.

Lucas

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