Is it possible to configure the wiki to only allow authentified person to
post ? or at least only one user/password for everybody would be
sufficient... spam bots are not that smart to read the list and get them ;)
Regards,
Quentin
2008/9/26 jonni.jemp <jonni.jemp.domain.name.hidden>
>
> Hi Hal
>
> wiki spambots could eventually populate the whole site, including
> already created pages where
> earlier revisions [original material] might or might not be lost [as
> partially happened to one project wiki I was part of].
>
> several spam pages have been created in the everythingwiki
> http://everythingwiki.gcn.cx/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Allpages
>
> spam prevention entries on wikipedia include
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
> and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot
>
> best
>
> jj
>
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2:51 am, "Hal Ruhl" <HalR....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Jonni:
> >
> > How does this affect the site? I was hoping to use it this winter.
> >
> > Yours
> >
> > Hal Ruhl
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
> >
> > [mailto:everything-list.domain.name.hidden] On Behalf Of jonni jemp
> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:51 PM
> > To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
> > Subject: everything wiki
> >
> > hi just to let you know that
> > the site is now getting spammed
> > cf.http://everythingwiki.gcn.cx/wiki/index.php?title=All_goldwow_sale
> >
> > best
> >
> > jonni jemp
>
> >
>
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