Re: [foxboro] Wiki spam (Re: cassandra wiki)

  • From: "Weiss, Andreas" <Andreas.Weiss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:03:48 -0500

> I see TCP Wiki has been the victim of spam just like other=20
> Wikimedia=3D20
> Wikis, too. In a different Wiki I'm helping to maintain, we=20
> solved that=3D20
> by giving every user who really contributes sysop privileges and=3D20
> protecting all pages. That leaves only the case where=20
> spammers create=3D20
> new pages (but that can be blocked with the new Wikimedia=20
> version as=3D20
> well, I think). New users have to send a mail to be given privs.
>=20


It seems to be the one and only way out.

Andreas
 
 
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