On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:51:47PM +0000, samwise wrote:

There's still a spam problem with the wiki - I just cleared out loads of mainly chinese spam pages. At least they don't appear to be editing our own pages (perhaps a fix was put in by someone earlier?) ...

If anyone with admin rights wants to look into it, I wonder if we could configure MoinMoin in any of the following ways:

a) restrict wiki to English only b) only accept modifications with an explanatory comment (most of the spam ones don't) c) only accept modifications from registered users and require all new accounts to be approved (guess most people who want an account already have one, so that should only be requests from new users. We can always put a note on the wiki asking them to post to the mailing list to get an account.).

I don't have a huge amount of free time at present, so I've taken the easiest option and configured the wiki to only allow registered users to edit pages. There's no moderation on creating new users yet, so hopefully it won't limit people too much.

J.

samwise samwise@bagshot-row.org wrote: [...]

a) restrict wiki to English only b) only accept modifications with an explanatory comment (most of the spam ones don't)

Those both seem sensible steps.

c) only accept modifications from registered users and require all new accounts to be approved [...]

If you do that and don't offer OpenID logins, I won't edit it any more. Then again, I've not had much time to edit it for a few months, but surely I'm not the only member with Trivial Web Registration Fatigue? Requiring approval also seems to go against "wikiwiki" meaning "quick". Finally, even if you require logins, you will still get some spambot attacks eventually: I did on my AFFS wiki...

Regards,