> Bram Mooleanaar summarized: > > I'm still a bit worried about spammers, since that is what broke down > the current tip collection. Perhaps someone can look into this, so that > the scripts we use for conversion do the right thing?
I looked into the anti-spam features of Wikibooks, and they basically do the basics: blacklists for abusers and easy rollbacks. So the top 2% of spammers/vandalizers will be blocked, and it will be easy for the admins to roll back the problems created by the outher 98%. So will that be effective? Eh, maybe. It seems to be effective enough for a lot of Wikibooks, and we *do* have experts on this mailing list (*cough* Martin Krischik *cough*) so I would love to hear their perspectives :) I don't think that the conversion effort will be wasted, even if we don't end up using Wikibooks as our wiki host. The two top hosts in my eyes are Wikibooks and Wikia, and they both use the Mediawiki wiki engine. Also, many other wiki engines support the Mediawiki markup language, so I think we're future-proofing our content by using this markup language. From my experience, it's definitely the de facto standard. Thanks! Tom Purl
