[sage-devel] Re: Fighting Spam in the wiki

2008-04-16 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 1, 8:14 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:43 AM, mabshoff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > if you look at > > >http://wiki.sagemath.org/RecentChanges?max_days=14 > > > you will see once again some idiot spammers creating crap pages in the > >wiki. While we aren't

[sage-devel] Re: Fighting Spam in the wiki

2008-04-01 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:43 AM, mabshoff wrote: > Hi, > > if you look at > > http://wiki.sagemath.org/RecentChanges?max_days=14 > > you will see once again some idiot spammers creating crap pages in the > wiki. While we aren't too badly effected by Spam I think it has gotten > worst over time. So wha

[sage-devel] Re: Fighting Spam in the wiki

2008-04-01 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 1, 2:57 pm, Harald Schilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > b) install a Captcha. > > +1 > > this one is good and usefulhttp://recaptcha.net/ > > > > > c) Just like trac hand out account[s] ... > > -1 Yeah. I forgot to mention that I consider this as a "last resort" type of solution after

[sage-devel] Re: Fighting Spam in the wiki

2008-04-01 Thread Harald Schilly
> b) install a Captcha. +1 this one is good and useful http://recaptcha.net/ > > c) Just like trac hand out account[s] ... -1 I think that's not a good idea, because you are cutting off the "long tail" of random but useful contributions. e.g. things for the interact example page or similar. h