Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken wiki vandalized yet again

[elf]

i dont know if this has been suggested yet, or if its already implemented,
cause i havent set up a wiki account myself... but do you do mailback
validation for creating accounts?

another fairly simple solution (although the one a few posts ago regarding
simple questions was brilliant, imho) would be to have someone manually
verify accounts before theyre given edit privs, or something suchlike.
i would imagine that most of the legitimate posters would already be
signed up for the mailing lists, or would have mailed felix or others
in the past, so it wouldnt be a major time investment, i would think...

-elf


On 7 Nov 2006, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:

> Hello John and folks,
>
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:51:56 -0500 John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > We desperately need to freeze the home page of the Chicken wiki on
> > galinha.  Can whoever administers that server do so?
>
> What do others think?  I think freezing the wiki is too radical and
> goes against the main purpose of a wiki.
>
> Maybe freezing only the main page, as John suggests, is a good
> solution, since it's the most affected by spammers and not frequently
> intentionally modified.  Would a plain "svn lock" do the trick?
>
> It's a fact that vandalism has been annoying us since the beginning,
> and a lot in the last weeks.  I agree that we need a way to minimize
> the action of spammers.
>
>
> > I've left it empty right now, as I don't seem to be able to bring
> > back any of the supposedly saved history pages.
>
> I've restored the index page.
>
> Best wishes,
> Mario
>
>
>
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