Re: [Unattended] Should we put the wiki on write only for trusted users

[Tim B. <ti...@ne...>]

Is the current setup to allow anonymous edits? If so, simply dropping 
that would probably help.
If you already did that, then do what you think is necessary. I don't 
think there's all that many people contributing to the wiki anyway, is 
there?

TB

Juan Jose Pablos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a bit tired of the amount of spam that is getting to our wiki:
>
> http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/RecentChanges?max_days=60
>
> I think that by the amount of changes that get done it is not worth the 
> amount of time it takes to clean it up.
>
> The is a http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/BadContent pages that gets 
> automatic updated. And there is as well a 
> http://ubertechnique.com/unattended/LocalBadContent that is update to 
> the links that pop up in our wiki.
>
> The average rate is 4 pages modified each day. I know that it is not 
> much but takes time if you have a busy week.
>
> I am thinking about allowing only trusted users from this list to be 
> able to modify content and readonly for anonymous access.
> Creating a Unattended with public password for this list, with same 
> permission as the anonymous user has today.
>
> So can anyone suggest a way to resolve this?
>
> Cheers,
> Juan
>
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