[OctDev] Re: Octave Wiki

[Etienne G. <et...@cs...>]

  Hi Todd,



On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 08:15:20PM -0600, Todd Neal wrote:
# Dr. Grossmann,
# 
# On the Octave Wiki it states:
# Hopefully, this is only a temporary fix. This site has been badly 
# defaced recently. Thanks to David Bateman for repairing the damage, 
# ringing the alarm and proposing fixes. I have little time for 
# administration right now, but hope to soon find a solution that 
# preserves the "wiki" spirit in this site.
# 
# In light of this I thought that there may be enough interest in the Wiki 
# that it could opened completely.  Perhaps it could even be for a test 
# period, ie. open up full access for a week and see if the community at 

I left the wiki open by mistake a few weeks ago and had to clean it up
shortly after; I don't think it's worth repeating the experiment. The
spamming communuty would surely appreciate, though.


# large can keep spam to a minimum.
# 
# I believe that the only way for the Octave Wiki or generally any Wiki to 
# become self-policing is for it to be opened to all users.  Without the 
# ability for anyone to join in easily it may be difficult to grow a large 
# user base and without a large user base spam may be a huge problem.  It 
# is somewhat of a catch 22.  Without a large user base, spam may become 
# uncontrollable.  Without opening up the Wiki for possible spam, it is 
# difficult to attain a large user base.

  I don't see why a a large community would discourage spamming. Could
you explain?
 
# A possible solution may be to allow some users who volunteer to act as 
# Wiki administrators and maintain the BannedContent and BannedHosts pages 
# (http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Banning).  This would make it easy 
# to curtail spamming of the same site(s) and spam from the same few hosts.

  Thanks for pointing this out to me, I did not know (or remember)
about the bannedhosts page. If you want to clean up after spammers and
keep updated the bannedhosts, I could list you as an administrator (as
soon as I find out how to).

  Cheers,

  Etienne

# 
# 
# Thanks,
# Todd

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