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On 03/04/10 14:40, Dror Levin wrote: |
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> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 16:19, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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>> 2 - maintainers |
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>> Who is volunteering for maintaining the wiki? We need editors and |
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>> moderators, people who look out for quality control and take care of |
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>> spam removal. So let's get together a team. I'm sure if we ask on the |
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>> forums we'll get some users interested as well. |
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> I volunteer. Spam shouldn't be that much of an issue if editing is |
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> restricted to registered users, but it is a good idea to have a team |
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> of moderators similar to the one that exists for the forums (of course |
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> users can take part of it as well as developers). |
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Most of the spam on gentoo-wiki.com comes from registered accounts. |
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Requiring registration does not stop most wiki spam. Very little of the |
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spam comes in from unregistered editors. |
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On gentoo-wiki.com we currently use a combination of anti-spam tools, |
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which seems to work best. The main 2, from a day-to-day administration |
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view are the url blacklist and manual removal of spam and associated |
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accounts. |
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You could require email authentication first, but I believe this is |
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unlikely to reduce spam - creating a setup that automatically deals with |
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account verification emails is trivial and throwaway accounts are too |
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easy to get hold of. |
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In addition I believe it would reduce the amount of positive |
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contribution more than it reduces spam - I believe people often want to |
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make quick, small corrections / additions and telling them to "come back |
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later" is going to be the same as telling them "go away". |
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I would highly recommend using MediaWiki as, at least from my |
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experience, it's the most prevalent of the wiki setups available. While |
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this may bring some disadvantages (number of spam attempts (tho I'm |
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nottotally convinced you'll get less than any other web form out there), |
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etc), it also brings the advantages of being well developed with a wide |
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variety of plugins, lots of wiki syntax guides / tutorials you can point |
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users to and a wide userbase with existing knowledge of the syntax. |
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