Re: [Audacity-devel] AudacityWiki

[Alexandre P. <ale...@gm...>]

On 1/31/06, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> Our wiki is becoming unmanageable.  For a long time, the IP blacklist
> kept the spam under control, but recently the spammers have obtained
> botnets.  The blacklist and robots.txt are still keeping things barely
> under control, but the wiki can't be left alone for more than a day now
> without being completely wrecked.
>
> I'd like to move to MediaWiki, which has content-based filtering and
> other features that should stop 99% of spammers.  It also has an account
> system that could be used to further control access if necessary, and to
> allow more people to help with administration and maintenance.
>
> Dominic, MediaWiki is a one-click install on DreamHost.  I suggest
> moving the existing wiki to a different URL ("wiki.old"), installing
> MediaWiki in its place, and then migrating the worthwhile content from
> old to new.  I can do that last part -- there are only about one hundred
> nodes, and they mostly just need to be copied and pasted.  It would be a
> good chance to prune and edit some of the cruft too.

Being administrator of a couple of Mediawikis I rather object. I use
SpamBlockList on both, but if you want a real life picture how it
helps, have a look:

http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php?title=3DSpecial:Recentchanges&=
hideminor=3D0&hideliu=3D0&hidebots=3D1&hidepatrolled=3D0&limit=3D50&days=3D=
30&limit=3D50

Removing spam takes me about 2 hours a week that I could spend on
something better. If you are still keen of idea to move to Mediawiki,
I can give you my advanced list of URLs to be blocked.

Alexandre