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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki
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On 03/04/2010 18:40, AllenJB wrote:
> On 03/04/10 14:40, Dror Levin wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 16:19, Ben de Groot<yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> 2 - maintainers
>>> ===============
>>>
>>> Who is volunteering for maintaining the wiki? We need editors and
>>> moderators, people who look out for quality control and take care of
>>> spam removal. So let's get together a team. I'm sure if we ask on the
>>> forums we'll get some users interested as well.
>> I volunteer. Spam shouldn't be that much of an issue if editing is
>> restricted to registered users, but it is a good idea to have a team
>> of moderators similar to the one that exists for the forums (of course
>> users can take part of it as well as developers).
>>
> Most of the spam on gentoo-wiki.com comes from registered accounts.
> Requiring registration does not stop most wiki spam. Very little of the
> spam comes in from unregistered editors.
>
>
> On gentoo-wiki.com we currently use a combination of anti-spam tools,
> which seems to work best. The main 2, from a day-to-day administration
> view are the url blacklist and manual removal of spam and associated
> accounts.
>
> You could require email authentication first, but I believe this is
> unlikely to reduce spam - creating a setup that automatically deals with
> account verification emails is trivial and throwaway accounts are too
> easy to get hold of.
>
> In addition I believe it would reduce the amount of positive
> contribution more than it reduces spam - I believe people often want to
> make quick, small corrections / additions and telling them to "come back
> later" is going to be the same as telling them "go away".
>
> I would highly recommend using MediaWiki as, at least from my
> experience, it's the most prevalent of the wiki setups available. While
> this may bring some disadvantages (number of spam attempts (tho I'm
> nottotally convinced you'll get less than any other web form out there),
> etc), it also brings the advantages of being well developed with a wide
> variety of plugins, lots of wiki syntax guides / tutorials you can point
> users to and a wide userbase with existing knowledge of the syntax.
>
> AllenJB
>
Does mediawiki have captcha ability?