Laurie Brown wrote:
Paul wrote:
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One possible solution is to use password protection - A wiki used by another group I'm involved with have an Admin page that requires a login before any edits can be made. So far, we haven't had any problems with spammers.
The Lincolnshire Linux User Group is currently discussing ditching their wiki or password protecting it because of spam. I set up the wiki with phpwiki and never locked the front page which was my first mistake.
I've always been dead against requiring registration for wikis, it's too much of a barrier to input IMHO. The web has far too many usernames and passwords floating around as it is. Also, even registration doesn't stop spammers.
Until the community comes up with some kind of single sign on or trust system for every web site a person uses and gets it widely adopted, putting usernames and passwords on things which are meant to be public may be a required evil. There are other solutions out there though with varying success and my preference is just making sure our technology is ahead of the spamming scum, but that doesn't always work.
On which point, can anyone recommend a wiki with such a feature. We want to use one for internal documentation and information sharing.
I'd recommend MediaWiki[1] which is the wiki behind wikipedia. I'm currently using three of them, two of which are for internal use only and soon to install a fourth. I don't know if it features password protection for *reading* the wiki on a public web server though, I've just been using http auth.
-- Ben "tola" Francis http://hippygeek.co.uk