On 9 Jan 2013, at 13:11, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know what technology choices we have, but should we lock down the > wiki and require accounts/approval? I don't think we'll be getting in > anyones way and will save us from processing the regular spam. > > The few valuable contributions we're seeing are from e.g. committers or > "regulars" from some support forum or another.
I'm one of the people that Rich Bowen doesn't want to deter. I haven't added much but I've made some small edits that I hope have been useful improvements. How about a better CAPTCHA rather than approval? One thing that might happen (and has happened to other wikis) is that the deletion workload is replaced by an account rejection workload. In fact, given that most spam is on nonsense user pages the difference might be pretty small. I realise that: • a good CAPTCHA is more work to set up • spammers can and do get past CAPTCHAs • it's still a barrier to contributions If anyone knows a wiki that lets people /propose/ edits without filling in a CAPTCHA, that might be enough. It should reduce spam because the spammers have little to gain from proposing a spam edit. -- Tim Bannister – is...@jellybaby.net
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