You have to do something about wiki spam
Marc: You have to do something about spam on the wiki. All the links have malware (trojans, viruses, etc.); people coming to learn about Gambit are going to click one by mistake and are going to get screwed. Brad
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There must be a way to block new page creation. At 2:21 PM -0500 1/12/08, Bradley Lucier wrote:
Marc:
You have to do something about spam on the wiki. All the links have malware (trojans, viruses, etc.); people coming to learn about Gambit are going to click one by mistake and are going to get screwed.
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On Jan 14, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Stephane Le Cornec wrote:
There must be a way to block new page creation.
It's not just new pages, it's the continual addition of link farms to existing pages. We probably need some human intervention to decide whether to allow people to register an account to edit the wiki (to at least make sure that they *are* people). Brad
On 14-Jan-08, at 1:09 PM, Bradley Lucier wrote:
On Jan 14, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Stephane Le Cornec wrote:
There must be a way to block new page creation.
It's not just new pages, it's the continual addition of link farms to existing pages.
We probably need some human intervention to decide whether to allow people to register an account to edit the wiki (to at least make sure that they *are* people).
My plan is to implement a captcha on edits. Unfortunately, "ConfirmEdit" does not seem to work with the version of MediaWiki used by the Gambit site (1.7.1). So I have looked into installing MediaWiki 1.11. Unfortunately, it needs PHP 5.1 or higher, and only 5.0 is installed. Marc
My plan is to implement a captcha on edits. Unfortunately, "ConfirmEdit" does not seem to work with the version of MediaWiki used by the Gambit site (1.7.1). So I have looked into installing MediaWiki 1.11. Unfortunately, it needs PHP 5.1 or higher, and only 5.0 is installed.
Marc
I suggest we use recaptcha, which is used to help numerize books... It also works with mediawiki. See http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/ to know how to install it. Adrien -- "I am not a Church numeral; I am a free variable!" (The Scheme Underground) For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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