On 12/09/2006, at 4:39 PM, Frantisek Dufka wrote:
Ferenc Szekely wrote:
Disabling anonymous edits would be temporary only, since it is
against
the idea of the wikis.
I don't mind fixing the frontpage few times until proper solution
is implemented (challenge/response looks ideal). I would disable
anonymous logins only when situation gets worse.
Personally if site (blog, wiki, forum) wants registration from me
for posting casual comments/hints/suggestions/corrrections I think
twice and then just forget it.
This is the reason why those of us who maintain the Tclers Wiki
(http://wiki.tcl.tk) have avoided logins so far, although the topic
comes up regularly.
Our attitude is that it is like a shop window - sure you'll get some
vandalism from time to time, but you don't want to "board it up" and
create barriers to people contributing.
The Tclers Wiki is one of the bigger Wiki's around (containing tens
of thousands of pages) and there are a couple of things that we do to
minimise the pain from Spammers.
The first (and perhaps most significant) is to include
'rel="nofollow"' in all links, and to prominently display the
following message on all edit pages
(in case the mailing list software filters the image, you can see it
at http://mini.net/pub/nofollow.gif)
Most Wiki spammers seem to get the message - adding a URL to any page
will not increase its page rank in Google.
The second measure is to make it trivially simple to revert to a
previous version of a page. This means that spam is usually replaced
very quickly (by anyone with the interest in doing so) and the
spammers soon tire of playing the game. Of course, you need a simple
way to roll forward too.
I'll leave others to judge whether these are appropriate to the Maemo
wiki, but thought I'd share the experience in any case.
Steve
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Steve Landers Software Design Solutions
Digital Smarties [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perth, Western Australia DigitalSmarties.com
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