On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 06:02:15 -0700, Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
Since I didn't write the Wiki software, no. But that's an interesting idea, although I'm going to guess that it runs counter to the usual 'Wiki culture'....
A very simple and effective spam-combat tool I have seen employed by beleagured wikis is to password-protect the Edit pages, and to make the password simple and topic-relevant (e.g. "boost") but not in a machine-readable way. See for example the Smarty wiki at: http://tinyurl.com/6f4c9 Another suggestion somenoe made was to only allow registered users to edit pages. I think either of these is a fine, marginally intrusive change (assuming it can be done easily with the Wiki software) that would not stand in the way of legitimate users adding content and will go a long way to stop the spam. -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com