[gambit-list] You have to do something about wiki spam

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Mon Jan 14 22:30:08 EST 2008


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




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