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Re: Wiki state

by James Lemieux :: Rate this Message:

Holger, Rob, et al,

   Yeah, the Wiki state is abysmal. To recap for the group, I did investigate installing a "captcha module" into our wiki instllation, but just couldn't get it to work. But, I have no experience doing it, and perhaps I made stupid mistakes while doing it. (I recall getting PHP errors that were meaningless to me).

   4) is definitely something I'd vote for if someone knows how to do it...

Rob and Holger:

   Jesse and I, would definitely be willing to give either of you the FTP username/password if you'd be able to help out with this problem.

Thanks guys,

James

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Rob Eden <rob@...> wrote:

Wow, yeah. It's bad. If I can be of any assistance, just let me know.

Rob

On Jul 13, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Holger Brands wrote:

Jesse, James,

as we all know, the GL wiki is currently unusable
because of spamming. Just open the main page and
you'll see what I mean. It simply doesn't give a good
impression for (new) users.

What are the options we have?

1) ignore it and change nothing
2) drop the wiki altogether
3) try to secure the wiki (with captchas for example)
and cleanup the main pages
4) make the wiki editable only for contributors and "trusted" users
and cleanup the main pages
...

Option 3) would be ideal but because of lack of time and expertise,
it's unlikely to happen.
The next best option would be option 4):
Create a dedicated user group with edit permissions
and put only trusted users into it.
This way we could add new content quickly
while contributions from other users are restricted but still possible
after granting group membership.
Hopefully this would cut down the spam rate.

In comparison to the current state, this would be an acceptable
compromise in my opinion.

WDYT?

Holger

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